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  • Season 10 Finale: Don't Be So Technological

    September 10, 2026 · 16 min

    A UFO story from 1994 Zimbabwe sends Chalin down a rabbit hole — and it turns out the aliens may have had a point. From the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing to a Reuters investigation into China's military robotics ambitions to a…

  • The Box Didn’t Hold: OpenAI, Hugging Face, and the AI That Cheated

    September 4, 2026 · 15 min

    In July 2026, OpenAI put two powerful AI models inside a sealed testing environment and gave them a simple assignment: hack as far as they could. The sandbox was supposed to contain them. It didn’t. One model found a flaw, reached the open…

  • Cleared for Secrets

    August 28, 2026 · 11 min

    FBI agents search a quiet house in Alexandria, Virginia and find 303 gold bars, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches. The man who lives there has a top secret clearance and seventeen years at the CIA. Chalin walks through what a…

  • What's Going Down in Argentina

    August 14, 2026 · 15 min

    Thousands of Argentines marched through the rain outside Congress last week — tear gas, rubber bullets, a water cannon — over a bill that would have let foreigners buy unlimited land in the country. Except the government had already pulled…

  • Ceuta: Five Hundred Years, One Week

    August 7, 2026 · 9 min

    Sixty thousand people crossed into Ceuta in a matter of days. At least eighty-eight died trying. Reporting from Morocco, Chalin traces what actually happened at Spain's five-hundred-year-old African enclave — the policy signal from Madrid…

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  • Overturn This: Inside the White House Campaign to Reverse a Red Card

    July 17, 2026 · 13 min

    A red card. A trophy ceremony seven months earlier. An office inside Trump Tower. A phone call to FIFA's president. Chalin lays out, in order, exactly what happened between a controversial ejection at the World Cup and a rule that hadn't…

  • Darializa Avila Chevalier: The Woman Without a Mandate

    July 10, 2026 · 16 min

    Two years before she won the Democratic nomination for New York's 13th Congressional District, Darializa Avila Chevalier stood at a chained door inside Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, singing as police moved in. Chalin traces the full…

  • No Limits: Inside the Secret Cold War Between Russia and China

    June 12, 2026 · 15 min

    While Putin and Xi shake hands for the cameras, a classified FSB document reveals what's really happening behind the "no limits" partnership — espionage, stolen military tech, and a territorial grudge over the Russian Far East that goes…

  • The Strait of Hormuz: 23 Sailors. 5 Votes. A Hail of Bullets.

    June 5, 2026 · 11 min

    An all-Filipino crew of 23 had been stranded at anchor in the Persian Gulf for more than a month. There was one way out. Through the Strait of Hormuz — through mines, through Iranian gunboats, through a waterway Iran had declared its…

  • Brothers to the Rescue: Operation Scorpion

    May 29, 2026 · 15 min

    Welcome to Season 10 of The Delve. A new sound. A new format. And stories that put you inside the moment rather than just briefing you on it. We're starting where the news won't — with four names almost nobody remembers. Armando Alejandre…

  • Season 10 is coming. And it sounds different.

    May 22, 2026 · 1 min

    Season 9 took The Delve to 75 countries. Season 10 takes it somewhere else entirely. New sound design. New format. Cinematic, story-driven episodes that will make you feel like you're inside the story — not just hearing about it. Brothers…

  • [BRIEFING] That's Not a Decolonization Conference

    May 8, 2026 · 11 min

    As a junior at Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh, Chalin took an African Liberation Movements class at the University of Pittsburgh. It changed how he saw the world. This week, a conference called the World Decolonization Forum opens in…

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Hosted by Chalin Askew, The Delve explores one major question at a time — through narrative reporting, historical context, and long-form conversations. For listeners who want more than headlines, and the story behind them.