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Crosscut: narrative and moral clarity
A Catholic Security Scholar’s Case for Responsible Military AI
‘My questions were affected by fiction’: Carlo Ginzburg (1939-2026), pioneer in microhistory
Marco Rubio’s Dangerous Diplomacy in Lebanon
Why India Cannot Let the Rupee Float
Looking Back at Humphrey’s Executor
‘The Final Set’ Tells The Story Of Tennis’ Greatest Rivalry Becoming A Friendship
Crosscut: tectonic movements
When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration
Oligarchy’s Ancient Origins
Maps are powerful political tools shaping a nation’s past, present and future – counter maps allow everyday people to reclaim the narrative
Someone Stole a Banana Duct-Taped to the Wall of a French Museum. One of Its Duplicates Fetched More Than $6 Million at Auction
The secrets you shouldn’t keep from your doctor
Still Radical, Still American
Crosscut: traditional resilience modern fragility
Healing Sounds Are the Medical Miracle of the 21st Century
Here Comes the Sun
Has Ukraine Turned the Tide?
Opinion: What Ebola and Marburg are teaching us about the next pandemic
Character Matters—for the Other Party
What I Learned From ROTC
Crosscut: reason and radical freedom
Contriving Imaginary Gaps in Nuclear Deterrence
Scientists Say They've Made Cells That Feed, Grow and Reproduce, Bringing Them One Step Closer to Building Life From Scratch
Chip Off The Old Block
How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral
Doodles, boredom, and an intervention on Palestine: Nehru’s notes from the 1955 Bandung Conference
The king of soccer
Crosscut: india existential stability
Illegible benefits
Privacy isn’t dead – it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient
Will AI make companies outsource more, or less?
Rethinking the ‘Absolute Bar’ on Scheduled Caste Status in India
Should you keep practicing a religion even if you don’t believe?
Why The Tour de France Route Is Different Every Single Year
Crosscut: human presence embodiment
The Man Who Saw AI Coming
Opinion: ‘The Hot Zone’ led me to work with Ebola patients. Now I have mixed feelings about the book
A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data
Crosscut: citizenship and belonging
Agrivoltaics could feed energy-hungry AI and the world
What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings
Celebrating from a divided country
Why young men are killing their sperm
How Tanjia, a Meat Stew Slow-Cooked in Bathhouses, Shaped Marrekesh's Social Life
Crosscut: autonomy of truth
“Dear Syria … ”
There Are Three Types of AI Users
What Happens When the Country Loses a General
Afghanistan’s Women: Erased
Struggling with creative work doesn’t mean you’re failing
Techno tourism in Detroit – what do visitors owe the city that created the music?
Crosscut: genetic cancer management
Glass Jaw? The New Economic Fragility Recasting American Power
Therapy for billionaires
Why Carbon Capture Can’t Conceivably Solve Climate Change
Disneyland With No People
Inside Mangav, a unique Maharashtra village for abandoned women and their children
Crosscut: narratives of truth
How the Squamish built Senakw
The World's First Nuclear Clocks Are Ticking, Opening a New Way to Investigate Dark Matter and Other Mysteries of Physics
What defines Japan's national identity?
Fossil fishes buried in the desert reveal a missing chapter in marine history
How to turn casual friends into close ones
My Manic Pixie Dream Femme Fatale
Crosscut: technically sweet science
Can Printed 'Skin' Heal Burns and Prevent Scars?
A Diary from the Psychic Capital of the World
The woman who turned cooking oil into soap in Gaza
What the Iran War Taught the World About Food Security
Opinion: How I used public radio to recruit 20,000 participants for a peer-reviewed study on walking breaks
Why Beijing Still Fears the Tiananmen Mothers
‘Maryam & Son’: A space for small lives and big grief that larger waves of global politics disallow
Crosscut: economic management tools
Making Syria’s Transitional Justice Process Meaningful for Survivors and Communities
ChatGPT probably isn’t conscious. But what if we’re wrong?
Two Roads to Fast Clinical Trials, and the US Takes Neither
Is It Warm Out There?
Ghosts of summers past
What’s The Ideal Target For A Heist?
Crosscut: ai and contingency
Can ecosystems ‘malfunction’?
Upcoming telescopes could shed light on dark matter – astronomers are looking for these ‘fingerprints’ of the elusive substance
Edward Said, My Grandfather, and the Problem of Home
Anticolonialism in the age of fragmentation
Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote a Work of Fiction That Seemed So Real That It Changed the History of the Country
Ahmedabad plane crash: Families of AI 171 crash victims grapple with flight fears, anxiety
Crosscut: world cup narratives
How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math
The chipped cup, the service lift and other things I had forgotten about India
Inside Ukraine’s Battlefield Innovation Loop
China is training a robot future — one folded shirt at a time
The city that rewired my brain
Crosscut: biological containment science
The joy of autism
What Will the End of the Iran-US War Mean for Pakistan?
Juneteenth: ‘The Day of Freedom Came’
A shared mourning ritual helped an American soldier and an Iraqi interpreter find common ground
How to pray when you don’t believe in God
A Close-Up Look at the Waste of Modern Life