Top 5 Longreads of the Week

5. Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building Wright Thompson | ESPN | February 15, 2013 | 31 minutes (7,955 words) The former basketball star, at 50 and not ready to retire:"Once, the whole world…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (268 words)

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6897 words)

The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power

By George FriedmanFounder and Chief Executive Officer Last week I wrote about the crisis of unemployment in Europe. I received a great deal of feedback, with Europeans agreeing that this is the core…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2669 words)
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