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Here is My Heart Feature Long after the shooting at her old high school, Megan Stielstra worries about her father’s heart. Part one of a three-part series on gun violence. Feature
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Monroe, Jianan Qian, Rene Ebersole, Adi Robertson, and Kyle Chayka.
The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners Reading List This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.
One Consequence of Cannabis Legalization is Market Saturation Highlight Supply side economics is clogging the overstuffed bowl of Oregon’s booming cannabis market, and there are not enough lighters in Oregon to smoke all the product.
When Musical Theater Is Also a Kind of Therapy Highlight For teens recovering from the Parkland shooting, performing in a production of “Spring Awakening” provides a measure of healing.
Feature “I Try Not to Have a Schedule”: Talking Writing with William Vollmann Feature Renowned for the size of his books as the magnitude of his subjects, the author is ready to take on waste and climate change.
When the Amber Alert System Fails: An Abduction on Navajo Land Highlight It took the murder of a young Navajo girl to get the tribal police to refine their Amber Alert system. But will these changes work?
We Love Moms, as Long as They Have Good Insurance Highlight In the U.S., getting pregnant can be exciting, joyful, and the first step toward a lifetime of debt.
Who Needs Jurassic Park When We Have Liaoning, China Highlight Liaoning’s wealth of fossils is helping paleontologists better understand dinosaurs’ relationship to birds — and making China a paleontology hot spot, for better or worse.
How to (Almost) Get Away With Murder Highlight No one twigged that whenever a member of the Harrison family died, it was always just before an important hearing in a bitter child custody battle.
England’s National Health Service Is Suffering Growing Pains Highlight While England’s National Health Service institutes large-scale reform, the country’s understaffed, overcrowded hospitals are in crisis.
Feature Maybe We’re the Circle Feature Megan Stielstra and Nicole Piasecki talk about the shooting that changed their lives, who owns the story, and what to do with fear. Part three of a three-part series on gun violence.
Feature Maybe We Can Make a Circle Feature Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.
Feature The Olympian Who Believes He’s Always On TV Feature An Olympic sailor suffering from Truman Show Disorder attempts to wrest control away from the Director.
Feature Who Does She Think She Is? Feature The internet does not hate women. People hate women, and the internet allows them to do it faster, harder, and with impunity.
Feature The Death Row Book Club Feature When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for two murders he didn’t commit, he used his time to create a book club for death row inmates.
Feature You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent Feature A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.
Feature The Strike: Chemicals, Cancer, and the Fight for Health Care Feature Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left.
Feature Queens of Infamy: Eleanor of Aquitaine Feature Life gets busy when you have empires to build and marriages to annul.
Feature A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture Feature Minda Honey explores the long unraveling of a #MeToo moment in the wake of cultural upheaval.
Feature Here is My Heart Feature Long after the shooting at her old high school, Megan Stielstra worries about her father’s heart. Part one of a three-part series on gun violence.
Feature The Ladies Who Were Famous for Wanting to Be Left Alone Feature The Ladies of Llangollen fell in love, ran away together, and lived a scholarly life of “delicious seclusion” — secluded, that is, except for all the visitors.
Feature Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove Feature “If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
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Feature As Innocuous as Plant No. 1 Feature William Vollman enters the radioactive red zone to visit the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
One Consequence of Cannabis Legalization is Market Saturation Highlight Supply side economics is clogging the overstuffed bowl of Oregon’s booming cannabis market, and there are not enough lighters in Oregon to smoke all the product.
We Love Moms, as Long as They Have Good Insurance Highlight In the U.S., getting pregnant can be exciting, joyful, and the first step toward a lifetime of debt.
England’s National Health Service Is Suffering Growing Pains Highlight While England’s National Health Service institutes large-scale reform, the country’s understaffed, overcrowded hospitals are in crisis.
Feature Maybe We’re the Circle Feature Megan Stielstra and Nicole Piasecki talk about the shooting that changed their lives, who owns the story, and what to do with fear. Part three of a three-part series on gun violence.
Feature Maybe We Can Make a Circle Feature Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.
Feature To Hug, or Not to Hug? Feature Emily Meg Weinstein considers the complexities of meeting and greeting in this #MeToo moment.
Feature Maybe We Can Make a Circle Feature Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.
Feature Here is My Heart Feature Long after the shooting at her old high school, Megan Stielstra worries about her father’s heart. Part one of a three-part series on gun violence.
What If the Price of the American Dream Is Too High? Highlight In a blistering essay, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio eviscerates an American Dream that lures migrants with the promise of opportunity, then forces them to live under constant threat.
Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa. Highlight What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.
