Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now By Longreads Feature Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
Teju Cole Delights in Sentence Fragments By Krista Stevens Highlight “For me it’s about recognizing that great art comes in all kinds of forms.”
The True Story of Refugees in an American High School By Longreads Feature The politics of immigration ignores the reality: a classroom of young people adjusting to life in the United States, and a teacher driven to help.
An Urban Planner Against the Developer Presidency By Longreads Feature An urban planner examines the worldview of high-stakes commercial real estate developers, with a special focus on our new developer-in-chief.
The RNC, Revisited By Longreads Feature Last year, when Jared Yates Sexton went to Cleveland, the ugliness he saw there was a harbinger of much to come.
How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music By Longreads Feature On Guthrie, Robeson, Seeger, Lomax, Dylan, the Red Scare, the fall of labor, and what folk music had to do with it.
We Should Be Talking About the Effect of Climate Change on Cities By Longreads Feature But we’re not. Instead, the effects on cities tend to be edited out or statistically minimized.
My Half-Sister’s Half a Life By Longreads Feature Jeannie’s father never spoke of his daughter who had died at 16, the mysterious half-sister who shared her name.
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: America’s Secret Weapon in World War II By Longreads Feature How “know-nothings” Elizebeth Smith Friedman and William F. Friedman became the greatest codebreakers of their era.
The Creator of Bitcoin Comes Clean, Only to Disappear Again By Longreads Feature The mysterious creator of bitcoin asks a journalist to help reveal his identity.
How Food Can Be a Platform for Activism By Shakirah Simley Feature Food activist Shakirah Simley lays out her philosophy for a ‘good food movement’ that prioritizes racial equality.
Is the Internet Changing Time? By Longreads Feature “Fragments of the past are for the first time on tap, not stored away in boxes,” writes Laurence Scott.
A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich People, and Moby Dick By Longreads Feature On the beauty and burdens of the long haul.
On Why Joni Mitchell Deserves Her Due By Krista Stevens Highlight Carl Wilson argues that her genius has been overlooked for far too long, because of her gender.
America’s First Addiction Epidemic By Longreads Feature The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, astonishingly high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.
How a Journalist Uncovered the True Identity of Jihadi John By Longreads Feature Souad Mekhennet’s thrilling tale of late-night rendezvous, burner phones, and secret codes — and her quest to reveal the man in black.
Dear Chief Justice John Roberts: Our Country Has Not Changed By Mark Armstrong Highlight The president’s failure to condemn Charlottesville is directly linked to voter suppression in the United States.
Whose Fault Was Dunkirk? By Longreads Feature For years, historians have blamed King Leopold of Belgium. But did they fall for Allied propaganda?
The Brief Career and Self-Imposed Exile of Jutta Hipp, Jazz Pianist By Longreads Feature Europe’s “First Lady of Jazz” moved to New York in 1955, played for five more years, then disappeared — while royalty checks piled up with her record label.
Billy Bragg: Skiffle Songs Are Railroad Songs By Pam Mandel Commentary “The British kids were trying to escape the past as quickly as they could and the guitar offered them the best means to do that.”
The War on Drugs Is a War on Women of Color By Longreads Feature Women of color are disproportionately targeted by the war on drugs and broken windows policing.
The Arsonist Was Like a Ghost By Longreads Feature It was the thirtieth fire in less than two months. Who was trying to burn down Accomack County?
Processing Clues About a Friend’s True Identity to Make Sense of Her Murder By Sari Botton Highlight In an excerpt from her memoir, Carolyn Murnick tries to piece together the stabbing murder of her childhood friend.
‘Trump Wouldn’t Be President Without the Neoliberalization of New York City’ By Sari Botton Feature A conversation about hyper-gentrification with Vanishing New York author Jeremiah Moss.
Girl Wonder By Meaghan O'Connell Feature When Meaghan O’Connell finished reading a celebrated young author’s debut novel, she felt a mix of admiration, jealousy, and recognition of the powerlessness that comes with young adulthood.
Why Are Humans So Curious? By Jessica Gross Feature Mario Livio on his new book about human curiosity, his work as an astrophysicist, and why we shouldn’t fear our expanding universe.
The 1923 Novel That Helps Us Understand Today’s Racial Climate By Danielle Jackson Commentary ‘Cane’ is a series of vignettes about life in rural Georgia told from the point of view of an ambivalently black teacher from the north.
Youth From Every Quarter By Longreads Feature A teacher at an elite boarding school confronts her own confused leap up the ladder of class privilege.
Late in Life, Thoreau Became a Serious Darwinist By Longreads Feature But he died before he could finish his book on natural history. As Emerson put it, Thoreau “depart[ed] out of Nature before… he has been really shown to his peers for what he is.”
Becoming Estranged from My Family ‘Was the Best Thing for Me’ By Jessica Gross Feature Jessica Berger Gross on what it means to sever ties with your family.
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