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In July 2025, a protester shot a cop outside an ICE detention facility in North Texas. The federal government alleged the incident was the result of an “antifa” terrorist plot involving a network of friends and acquaintances united in leftist beliefs. The case that ensued was chilling: <\/p>\n

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It didn\u2019t matter that little evidence of a premeditated attack on law enforcement ever emerged. It didn\u2019t matter that every defendant, except the actual shooter, was exonerated of the original attempted murder charges. It didn\u2019t even matter that prosecutors struggled to show the defendants belonged to an \u201cantifa cell.\u201d In the end, they convinced the jury that Batten and most of her co-defendants were guilty of rioting, conspiracy, using explosives, and supporting terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Fort Worth courtroom in June, a right-wing judge sentenced Batten<\/a> to 50 years behind bars\u2014a stark warning to others who might challenge the president\u2019s agenda. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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(Sign up for the Regular plan\u2014$25 a month, or $250 a year\u2014and you get to give the <em>Ravenous<\/em> raven a nickname, which they include in their Sunday newsletters.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If anyone can build a publication around engaging, relevant food reporting and storytelling, it’s Saxena and this crew. Have a look around <em>Ravenous<\/em> and consider subscribing. But be warned: Don’t browse when you’re hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<a href=\"mailto:cheri@longreads.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Cheri Lucas Rowlands<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Where did you grow up?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was born and raised in New York City, and aside from a brief stint in New Orleans for college, I\u2019m still here. 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It\u2019s just such a good exploration of how something innocuous becomes the center of a culture war. I was also thrilled to find the spread at an Egyptian grocer in my neighborhood, and sorry white French people, it <em>is<\/em> better than Nutella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What was the last book you read?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had somehow never read <em>Interview With the Vampire<\/em> by Anne Rice, but after watching the TV series my friends and I decided to read it together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What piece of nonfiction are you most proud of writing?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/24162871\/food-makes-you-gay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Food That Makes You Gay<\/a>,\u201d for <em>Eater<\/em>. 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She enjoys covering the intersections of food and immigration, business, history, policy, queerness, and just about every way we use food to say something about ourselves. She is the series editor for <\/em>The Best American Food and Travel Writing<em><em>.<\/em> Her work has appeared in <\/em>Eater<em>, <\/em>Slate<em>, <\/em>Gourmet<em>, <\/em>GQ<em>, <\/em>The New York Times<em>, <\/em>Defector<em>, and more. You can email her at <a href=\"mailto:jaya@weareravenous.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jaya@weareravenous.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-border has-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\t<div\n\t\tclass=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles is-style-borders wpnbha is-grid columns-3 colgap-3 show-image image-aligntop ts-2 is-3 is-uncropped is-style-borders\"\n\t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t<div data-posts data-current-post-id=\"258100\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-section-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>More questionnaires<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"259206\"\n\t\tclass=\"tag-el-paso tag-espn tag-interviews tag-journalists tag-roberto-jose-andrade-franco tag-sports tag-sports-writing tag-texas tag-texas-highways tag-writers category-questionnaire type-post post-has-image\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2026\/09\/17\/questionnaire-roberto-jose-andrade-franco\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?fit=1200%2C700&quality=80&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-uncropped size-newspack-article-block-uncropped wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Roberto Jos\u00e9 Andrade Franco\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?w=2400&quality=80&ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?resize=300%2C175&quality=80&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?resize=1024%2C597&quality=80&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?resize=768%2C448&quality=80&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?resize=1536%2C896&quality=80&ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?resize=2048%2C1195&quality=80&ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?resize=1200%2C700&quality=80&ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?resize=2000%2C1167&quality=80&ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?resize=780%2C455&quality=80&ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?resize=400%2C233&quality=80&ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?resize=706%2C412&quality=80&ssl=1 706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/longreads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1.png?fit=1200%2C700&quality=80&ssl=1&w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 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This means that it\u2019s not just the volume of noise, but the diversity of sound that indicates habitat health. The dawn chorus in an intact Bornean tropical forest is magical in its complexity, especially if you\u2019re lucky to experience it mixed in with the whoops of a troop of gibbons swinging through overhead, as I was during a visit in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast, cities are generally not ecologically healthy and, while they are incredibly noisy places, they are filled with the harsh, more monotonous sounds of car engines and other machines, and often little biotic sound. 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It gets you over the hump of the blank page because you don’t have to worry about how you start your masterpiece. You’re just like, nope, this is what this paragraph has to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brendan:<\/strong> How have you cultivated that sense of voice over your writing career? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rachel:<\/strong> I’ve been a journalist for a very long time. Clarity has always been a priority, especially at <em>National Geographic<\/em>. When I was writing scientific stories, some of them had to be really, really short. It\u2019s front-of-book for the magazine, and it’s almost like writing poetry because every word has to count. If you’re doing something complicated, you have to think about how the reader is taking it in. Is this clear to the reader? Is the reader going to want to read the next paragraph? Where is the momentum? I’m thinking about that a lot. I’m trying to remember that I’m in partnership with a reader, and they need to understand what I’m writing about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brendan:<\/strong> How do you approach interviewing as a skill and as a craft?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rachel:<\/strong> I always have my questions, but I\u2019m not an aggressive interviewer. I like to let people talk, and I like to use people’s own words in my writing. I like to hear people’s voices, so I am probably a minimalist interviewer, though I wouldn’t say a minimalist reporter. But for instance, when I went on expeditions to Nikumaroro\u2014an island where some think Amelia Earhart died as a castaway\u2014I felt like I was a spy and an eavesdropper. 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But here I am again at my desk, and literally, one of the editors at <em>Nat Geo<\/em>, Glenn Oeland, stopped me in the hallway and said, “We have a berth on this ship going out to an island in the Pacific. Do you want to go?\u201d And I said yes, and I really had no idea where I was going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I started at <em>Nat Geo<\/em>, I had been a book review editor at the<em> The Washington Post<\/em>, which is a very desk-bound job. I had no idea what I was doing, so I said yes to things, which up until that point wasn\u2019t anything hugely dramatic. So this was the biggest yes. I realized it wasn’t just a yes that I had to say, but I also had to get buy-in from my then-husband and my son, who was 12 at the time. I had to think about all the details involved in going to a place like this. I had never been on a ship; I had never been anywhere tropical. But once I got on the ship, I focused on doing the story, and it felt like a huge weight fell off my shoulders, even though I was very seasick at first. But once the preparation is over, you immerse yourself in the story and the people, trying to figure out the dynamics of what you need to find out. It’s such a flow state.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>My career has not been a straight path; it’s been a lot of happenstance where I somehow get a job and figure out how to do it once I’m there.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brendan:<\/strong> And as you’re reporting and tackling the project at large, it can be overwhelming to think about the scope of it. Thinking: <em>This is going to be a book. 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I didn’t know that much about her beyond what we learn in elementary school: a groundbreaking aviator disappears. I really wanted something that incorporated more of her biography. So that would be one narrative. But then there’s all the theories and the people who pursued them, and it’s all very involved. I had a hard time figuring out how to braid all those strands together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brendan:<\/strong> You came up with a three-part structure: captured, castaway, and sank. How did you arrive at three \u201cdeaths of Amelia\u201d as the scaffolding to weave these stories around?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rachel:<\/strong> It was challenging to figure out how to approach each theory, how to lay it out in a way that wouldn’t be utterly baffling to the reader. The first way I tried was utterly baffling to my editor, so I had to have another go. I was trying to do it almost chronologically, which involved all the theories all at once, and it would have been very difficult. So instead, I decided to alternate between the biography chapters and one theory at a time, starting from the least likely to the most likely. I don’t advocate for any one theory in the book, but part of the reason I wanted to start with the least likely is that it’s also the most exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brendan:<\/strong> You mention that there have been solid biographies written about Earhart. I imagine that as you were looking to sell this book, you were wondering about what can be said that hasn’t already been said? How did you approach selling a new book on Amelia Earhart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rachel:<\/strong> In my darkest moments, I\u2019m like, <em>who needs this book?<\/em> I don’t know. There had been some good biographies, and a lot of the different searchers had written books arguing for what they think happened. There hadn’t really been a book that combined it all, and there hadn’t been a book that contextualized the searches. I think that’s what helped sell the book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brendan:<\/strong> I love the first third of the book or so. You write that she wanted a life of purpose and she couldn’t imagine finding it in a purely domestic existence. What do you think she was so, almost at ease, with bucking societal norms of the time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rachel:<\/strong> I think she was interested in what was new, in new experiences, in new technology; having a life where things basically stayed the same just would have been the end of her. I just don’t think she would have been able to handle that. She had an unstable childhood, but her parents did well. They had two girls, and when the girls wanted a BB gun, they got a BB gun. Her mom sewed them rompers so that they could actually play rather than being constricted in dresses. She was raised to be herself, basically, and I think she never learned how to shut that down, which is wonderful. She was always looking for what she could do beyond what was expected of her, you know, <em>how can I be what I want to be when society expects me to be a certain way?<\/em> It’s a question that we all still struggle with. 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We mingled, but the intimacy had disappeared. One man told me that he had high emotional intelligence and could tell that I did too\u2014then he suggested that we travel together someday, handed me his business card, and walked away. I gave a few people my phone number, including one man who sent me a picture of his face the very next morning and another who texted me so much (even after a polite rebuff) that I had to block him. One date with another guy resulted, but I wasn\u2019t interested in a second. The perception of abundance had, once again, evaporated into nothing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-50\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-primary-background-color has-background has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/2026\/09\/modern-romance-recession\/687968\/?src=longreads\" style=\"padding-top:15px;padding-right:15px;padding-bottom:15px;padding-left:15px;font-size:20px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the story<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\t<div\n\t\tclass=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles is-style-borders wpnbha is-grid columns-3 colgap-3 show-image image-aligntop ts-2 is-3 is-landscape is-style-borders\"\n\t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t<div data-posts data-current-post-id=\"258256\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-section-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>More picks on dating <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"258256\"\n\t\tclass=\"tag-atlantic tag-dating tag-dating-apps tag-faith-hill tag-longreads tag-marriage tag-romance category-editors-pick type-post\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2026\/08\/14\/romance-dating-decline\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Great Romance Slump<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"newspack-post-subtitle newspack-post-subtitle--in-homepage-block\">\n\t\t\t\t\tFaith Hill | The Atlantic | August 3, 2026 | 6,791 words\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>“Why are so few young people finding love?”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-wrapper -->\n\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"245037\"\n\t\tclass=\"tag-alt-right tag-america tag-conservative tag-cosmopolitan tag-dating tag-longreads tag-vera-papisova category-editors-pick type-post\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2025\/11\/04\/dating-alt-right-conservative-men\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u2018America is More Divided Than Ever \u2014 But How is it Affecting Our Love Lives? 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