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Slavery's Global Comeback

Buying and selling people into forced labor is bigger than ever. What "human trafficking" really means.Slaves pan for gold in Accra, Ghana. Many have children with them as they wade in water poisoned…
AUTHOR:J.J. Gould
PUBLISHED: Dec. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4091 words)

Longreads: Longreads Member Exclusive: Call It Rape

→ longreads: This week’s Longreads Member Exclusive comes from Margot Singer, whose essay “Call It Rape” was published in the Fall 2012 issue of The Normal School

The Brawl Over Fair Trade Coffee

A man holds up coffee beans above a basket for roasting at Giang Lo Duc coffee shop in Hanoi August 7, 2012. Reuters/Kham  On May 20, the country’s oldest “fair trade”…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1231 words)

longreads: A look at the illegal tunnels that...

Six degrees of aggregation

Of the many and conflicting stories about how The Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three international editions (with more to come), 1.2 billion monthly page views and 54…
LENGTH: 39 minutes (9907 words)

New York Hunter Moore Makes a Living Screwing You

The hated revenge-porn profiteer says he wants to teach a lesson with his web site. How long before the 26-year-old learns one himself? Hunter Moore is trying to screw a 20-year-old woman on my lap.…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4716 words)

We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction

Unthinkable as it may be, humanity, every last person, could someday be wiped from the face of the Earth. We have learned to worry about asteroids and supervolcanoes, but the more-likely scenario,…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4950 words)

The Top 10 MoJo Long Reads From 2011

Conventional wisdom is that people don't read long magazine stories online, but Mother Jones readers regularly prove otherwise. Every time we run a compelling, multipage article on our website, we…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (394 words)

All the Angry People

Until this fall, Ray Kachel had lived virtually all of his fifty-three years within a few miles of his birthplace, in Seattle. He was a self-taught Jack-of-all-trades in the computer industry, who…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 5, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (983 words)
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