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Episode 686
Long before mathematics reduced it to a dreary middle, today’s word was born among Mediterranean sailors who understood that surviving the squall mea…
1 day, 10 hours ago
The Daily Disruptor: The Tip That Wasn't
Episode 685
An autonomous test of Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted a fabricated homicide lead to a live Philadelphia police tip form, illustrating how unco…
1 day, 11 hours ago
Daily X: Window Open, Kremlin Silent
Episode 684
Washington declared an energy ceasefire that Moscow never acknowledged and oil barely registered, falling just 0.77% to $103.91. Meanwhile, the disco…
1 day, 12 hours ago
The Daily Allocator: The dollar holds its high; Healey's departments feel the squeeze; a tanker is hit off Oman
Episode 683
The dollar held near its highest levels since April of last year as traders priced an eighty-one percent chance of a Federal Reserve pause, even with…
1 day, 12 hours ago
Daily News Briefing: Pakistan's president declares emergency, suspends Imran Khan party's provincial government
Episode 682
Pakistan's president declares emergency, suspends Imran Khan party's provincial government
1 day, 12 hours ago
The Long Echo: Whoever Writes the Cylinder
Episode 681
On the twelfth of October, the official record often rewrites the rough truth of the event. From Cyrus the Great claiming a bloodless liberation in B…
1 day, 13 hours ago
Reflection: James ‘Sugar Boy’ Crawford, born on this day - October 12 | Ep 101
Episode 680
Crawford’s song travelled farther than he could follow: while “Iko Iko” became a Mardi Gras standard, a beating by state troopers cost him two years …
1 day, 13 hours ago
Elsewhere: Vienna Keeps the Dance
Episode 679
Vienna serves its grand traditions effortlessly, but its modern openness hinges on a radical civic choice. This week, we examine what the city cleare…
1 day, 17 hours ago
Elsewhere: Istanbul, Facing Both Ways
Episode 678
Straddling two continents across the Bosphorus, Istanbul turns on the question of what binds a metropolis together when water and history divide its …
1 day, 19 hours ago
A Word, Please: Enthusiasm
Episode 677
We look for it on cover letters now, but there was an era when today’s word was an accusation—the unsettling suspicion that a deity had moved in and …
2 days, 10 hours ago