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Welcome to the age of non-profit city government

This article originally appeared on Next American City. Sue Mosey spends a lot of time telling stories. When I first met her, she breezed through two hours of narration about the behind-the-scenes…
PUBLISHED: July 14, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4676 words)

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5296 words)

Vacationers, Rejoice! Longreads Now Has a Travel Channel

The curator of long-form writing has a new section -- and a new business model. Paul Keller/Flickr So you're settling into a plane for a long-haul flight. You are in the middle seat. Of a five-seat…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (557 words)

Debt and Debtor

Walking around Greenwich Village, it's easy to find reinforcement for the popular stereotype of New York University as a rich-kid school. On a fall evening, the bars and restaurants near the campus…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (919 words)

I Was Wrong, and So Are You

Back in June 2010, I published a Wall Street Journal op-ed arguing that the American left was unenlightened, by and large, as to economic matters. Responding to a set of survey questions that…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1836 words)

The Shame of College Sports

A litany of scandals in recent years have made the corruption of college sports constant front-page news. We profess outrage each time we learn that yet another student-athlete has been taking…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1198 words)

The Megacity

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PUBLISHED: Nov. 13, 2006
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9638 words)

How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans

Angry and frustrated, American voters went to the polls in November 2010 to take back their country. Just as they had done in 2008. And 2006. And repeatedly for decades,…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (915 words)
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