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Longreads Needs Your Support to Raise $50K During Our Winter 2020 Member Drive

by heymarkarms February 27, 2020October 19, 2022

Longreads is pushing to achieve long-term sustainability, and reader support is more critical than ever.

TikTok
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quotes

Meet the 14-Year-Old Dancer Who Invented The Renegade

by heymarkarms February 13, 2020October 19, 2022

A ninth grader’s creation explodes on TikTok, without acknowledgement or credit.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Original Renegade

by heymarkarms February 13, 2020October 19, 2022

A 14-year-old ninth grader from the Atlanta suburbs created a dance called The Renegade that exploded on communities like TikTok. The only problem is that Harmon saw her creation take on a life of its own without any acknowledgement.

Jonathan Mooney
Posted inAudio, Books, education, Podcasts

Normal Sucks: Author Jonathan Mooney on How Schools Fail Kids with Learning Differences

by heymarkarms December 17, 2019October 19, 2022

“We are in a sort of remediation industrial complex.”

You're Wrong About Podcast
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events

The Podcast That Explains Why We’re All Wrong 

by heymarkarms November 12, 2019October 19, 2022

How Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes debunk news scandals of the past.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The American Road Trip: Patriotism

by heymarkarms November 11, 2019October 19, 2022

From a naturalization ceremony to a Slipknot concert, Jacqui Shine travels the United States to understand what it means to be patriotic.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Margot Kidder Played Every Character, No Matter How Small, with a Vivid Inner Life

by heymarkarms December 28, 2018October 19, 2022

A moving tribute to Margot Kidder, as told through the words of her daughter, Maggie McGuane.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Fresno Bee and the War on Local News

by heymarkarms December 20, 2018October 19, 2022

At a time when local newsrooms are shrinking or closing entirely — and Trump is calling the news media “the enemy of the people” — Zach Baron visits the reporters and editors of The Fresno Bee in California’s Central Valley, where Republican Rep. Devin Nunes declared war on the paper.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Becoming Anne Frank

by heymarkarms November 1, 2018October 19, 2022

“Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Rumor in Madrona

by heymarkarms October 23, 2018October 19, 2022

Before Info Wars or Pizzagate, a right-wing conspiracy theory led to the murder of a prominent Seattle lawyer.

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