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‘Thurgood’s Coming.’
How Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund helped a group of falsely accused black men.
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The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence
A deep look into the career and voting record of Vice President Mike Pence during his time in Indiana government.
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Who Decides Who Counts as Native American?
Brooke Jarvis chronicles the legal battle over the “Nooksack 306,” members of the tribe who were disenrolled over questions about their identity.
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What Happens When a Tribe Cuts Ties with 306 of Its Own Members
In more than 30 years of membership, Annie’s descendants became interwoven in the life of the tribe. They married other Nooksacks and had kids; those kids had kids. But once the disenrollment process began, people chose sides. “It was just like a light switch,” Elizabeth Oshiro, one of the 306, told me. People she knew […]
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‘Continue Panicking’: Samantha Bee’s Interview with Journalist Masha Gessen
“Really it’s the nuclear holocaust I’m worried about.” One of my essay selections for Longreads Best of 2016 was by Masha Gessen, the Russian-American journalist and author of 2016’s The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, whose “Autocracy: Rules for Survival” in the New York Review of Books revealed in stark […]
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What Happened When You Invited Steve Jobs to Your Product Demo
“I think it’s coming along,” said Tim, “though we expect—” “I think it sucks!” said Jobs. His vehemence made Tim pause. “Why?” he asked, a bit stiffly. “It just does.” “In what sense?” said Tim, getting his feet back under him. “Give me a clue.” “Its shape is not innovative, it’s not elegant, it doesn’t […]
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What We Get Wrong About Hannah Arendt
The lessons we are drawing from her work may not be the one we most need to learn.
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Longreads Is Teaming Up with The Stranger to Cover the Inauguration and Protests
We’re teaming up with The Stranger to cover the presidential inauguration and protests in Washington, D.C.
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The Young Trump
“There were three campaign managers. There was only one son-in-law.” A look at how Ivanka Trump’s husband, real estate developer Jared Kushner, became one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers — and what it means for both of them over the next four years.