What we all need to hear right now, with special guest Marisa Siegel, Editor in Chief of The Rumpus.

Canada’s old white publishing institutions are a lesson in what happens when your media industry contracts: journalism no longer serves the reality of the country.

In a fertile valley that boats an $8 billion agricultural economy, the people who work the fields and in processing plants rarely enjoy the economic security that the fields’ corporate owners do.

Editors discuss the gender politics of music criticism, how young womxn drive conversations around cultural figures, institutionalized discrimination in sport, and more.

Longreads editors chat with Internet culture reporter Taylor Lorenz about ok boomer, TikTok, patriotism, and more.

Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?

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

Even with the federal government in chaos, there’s still plenty of opportunity to solve a global problem.

On the fate of Deadspin, recent longreads on Airbnb and influencers, and the uncanny canon of Wakefield Press.

A year after the Camp Fire, Tessa Love contemplates home, California’s undoing, and what it means to belong.

We invest a great deal of collective energy in commemorating our war dead. But do we remember them?

A family’s losses after Hurricane Sandy didn’t come in the usual order or with the usual speed.

Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.

Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Miami New Times, The New Yorker, 5280 Magazine, and The Believer.

We need to start talking about seemingly drastic approaches to the climate crisis, such as sun-dimming aerosols, right now — or we risk losing democratic control of the process.

From global capital to YouTube, carbon credits to indigenous land defenders in their own words, Will Meyer has compiled a reading list on who lit the match and how the fire might be stopped.

In an clandestinely written memoir, a jailed Turkish novelist and political dissident remembers the single sentence that changed everything at the moment of his arrest.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Politico.

Andrew Yang made it news, but we need a better plan.

Government jobs helped thousands of Black families move into the middle class. Now, increasing calls for government privatization are pushing them back out.

Longreads editors discuss recent stories in Inc., The Cut, and The Baffler.

Thailand’s criminal justice system is plauged by an accepted double standard, where corruption prevails.

Congressional fan fiction is real, it’s glorious, and it might be reshaping our political world.

When a student in her writing workshop submits a piece suggesting his character could ‘take’ a teacher just like her ‘atop her desk,’ Courtney Zoffness is flooded with memories of men touching her against her will.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The Baffler, The New York Times Magazine, and the Kenyon Review.

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

An economic downturn in 2008 shuttered numerous publications and further marginalized people of color in an already minimally integrated industry. But in the 90’s and early-aughts, multicultural publications flourished, providing an alternative model for journalism that bears remembering.

Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth, so why do taxpayers have to pay for the hurricane damage to rich coastal communities?

Longreads editors discuss stories in Jezebel, Governing, and The New Yorker.