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On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food…

Come join us as we go back seven months to the apex of the history of American capitalism in the 21st century. We find ourselves in a swarm of fellow starstruck souls outside the Sheraton Hotel on…

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[Best of 2012] Thanks to everyone who has participated in the Longreads community this year, and to all of our guests who shared their favorite stories of 2012. The below list represents our editors' favorite stories of the year, for both nonfiction and fiction.

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Fifty years ago this month, striking printers shut down seven New York City newspapers. The strike would last for 114 days and helped to kill four of those newspapers. “This was an absolutely…

One afternoon last August, at a hospital on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a former beauty queen named Emma Coronel gave birth to a pair of heiresses. The twins, who were delivered at 3:50 and 3:51,…

Jannick Brennum er chef på Neurokirurgisk Klinik på Rigshospitalet og en af de få herhjemme, der udfører hjerneoperationer, hvor patienterne er vågne undervejs. Men…

March 14, 2012 10:55 AM ET A policeman guards a Bank of America branch. Natalie Behring/Getty Images At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America,…

Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning foreign correspondent, died at the age of 43 in Syria, while reporting for the New York Times. A beloved and brilliant writer, Shadid spent his two-decade career…