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The Best Running Shoes You Can’t Get Your Hands On
Crosscut: systems in control
Sanctions Gaps and the Governance of Corruption Risk
Could Life Exist on This Nearby World? In a First, Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on an Earth-Like Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone
My Maddening Quest to Find Out if Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed
Opinion: My adult daughter has Down syndrome. Her life is entirely different from what experts expected
How we learned what genes are made of
‘No matter how busy a train is, you can always find a quiet space’: Travel writer Monisha Rajesh
Crosscut: death as protest
‘She was almost a Batman figure’: Mexico’s avenging Mother Courage
The stories shaping Africa’s AI future
We Went to a Yacht Party for the Most Pro-Deportation People in DC
I’m Jimothy, the Short-Spined Raccoon Who Has Taken the Internet by Storm, and the Collective Weight of Your Adoration Is Breaking My Already-Compromised Back
Crosscut: grazing on public land
The UK is a cautionary tale for the U.S.
Beckett the Prophet
One of the Quietest Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement, Ella Baker Led by Encouraging Everyone to Get Involved
How to slow down time when life keeps speeding up
The True History of New England’s Stone Walls
Crosscut: reading the field
Forged in a Knife Fight: China’s Brutal Domestic AI Competition
What we lost when everything became a screen
‘Fractured Communities’ by Umar Khalid: Scholarship meets commitment to marginalised lives
Your daydreams know something you don’t. Look closely
Meet Torstein Træen, The Stoic Norwegian Survivor Who Briefly Lit Up The Tour de France
Why you let down your guard on ads when scrolling on social media
Crosscut: militarized state power
The Corporal Philosophers
Why Am I Left-Handed?
The problem AI content moderation cannot solve
Playing for a Place in the World Through Taiwan’s Baseball Diplomacy
The Lessons About Ebola the U.S. Wants to Forget
Crosscut: escaping social limits
Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage
What does it mean to be ‘quantum’? A physicist explains the basics behind Einstein’s spooky actions at a distance
Opinion: Is there a doctor on board? Yes, and airlines depend on it
Against "Stochastic Terrorism"
The Ableism of Kings, the Fury of Trump
Crosscut: saving oral traditions
How Do Pigeons Find Their Way Home? New Research Suggests the Birds' Remarkable Navigational Skills Come From Their Livers
Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow
A City Bigger Than a Bomb: Dispatch from Beirut
Georgia’s unfinished European journey
A Gujarati Dalit writer reckons with Gandhi’s fraught legacy
How singing with other people can help you move through grief and despair
Crosscut: designing for humans
The Road to Space Runs through the Poles
Building a long-term base on the Moon will require extensive planning – a planetary geologist describes the considerations that go into it
Farms aren’t nature
‘Famous Men’ And Ambitious Women
From the memoir: When Oscar Wilde’s daughter-in-law did ‘Oriental’ makeup for Qurratulain Hyder
Punctuation: A Generational Divide
Crosscut: protecting human voice
The American suburbs are better than you think
Opinion: It looks like your doctor and talks like your doctor. But it’s not your doctor
A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade
Why China Never Captured the Indian Imagination
How Not to Rise to the Occasion
I’m Cyclosporiasis, the Explosive Diarrhea Parasite, and I’m Pivoting to Music
Crosscut: valuing skilled labor
How to be defiant
Older adults know AI is slop. They just like it
We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.
The forgotten success story of America’s teenagers
Bat in the house? Here’s how to remove it safely
The Endangered Big Screen Comedy
Crosscut: farming and fossils
What is the World Cup for?
China’s Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power
Ramachandra Guha: In Mannu Bhandari’s memoir, an unflinching spotlight on Indian patriarchy
Why the Media Keep Quoting the Same Climate Scientist
Plato’s Allegory Of The Crab
Crosscut: human limits and extremes
Could We Mitigate Super El Niños by Artificially Changing the Climate? A New Study Indicates Yes
Opinion: The AI licensure debate is missing the point of licensure
Far removed from today’s global juggernaut, soccer was born in the well-heeled boarding schools of 19th-century England
Events like the World Cup can inspire young athletes and put parents on unfamiliar turf
Crosscut: the persuasive uncanny
The Pentagon Is Too Fixated on China
The Davis Wing, the B-24 Liberator, and the Self-Made Bet That Paid Off
Why neighbor feuds bring out the absolute worst in us
Crosscut: proving medical truth
Insurers aren't the main villain of the U.S. health care system
Alan Lomax Spent Years Traveling the Country to Record the Sounds of America. The Legacy of His Obsession Will Live Forever
Why Global Press Freedom Rankings Struggle with Singapore
There’s a Name for the People Who Drain You
Gifts, Gritos, And A Breakthrough Win: An Afternoon With The Tour de France’s New And Jubilant Mexican Fanbase
Crosscut: tech and public interest
Claudia Sheinbaum: the wildly popular Mexican president dealing with drug violence, disappearances and Donald Trump
Does modernisation erase cultural difference – or amplify it?
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
China’s AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur
We analyzed paper money printed by Ben Franklin to uncover his anti‑counterfeiting techniques and materials innovations
Crosscut: american power and myth
What shape is the Earth?
The “Emotional Economy” of Parenting: A Conversation with Nina Bandelj
What Biden Changed About American Foreign Policy
Opinion: Medicine thinks Gen Z is too soft. It’s wrong
Walking through the ruins of French Cameroon
How to actually get to know your neighbors