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.

The working homeless exist in a modern purgatory.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and a collaboration between Texas Monthly and The Texas Tribune.

Farmers like sixth-generation Illinois farmer Ethan Cox can’t wait for policymakers to protect them from climate change. To survive, they have to adapt their operations now, if they can.

Most people know prisoners can marry. Few remember the co-ed prison, the impromptu courthouse wedding and the Supreme Court ruling that allows them to do so.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, Eater, and Hakai Magazine.

An elegy and reading list for Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died Monday, August 5, 2019.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Slate, The Cut, and The Goods by Vox.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Gay Magazine, The New Yorker, and Topic.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.

The Kingdom of Heaven, borne out of blood

Beef is a major culprit of the climate crisis, but if you want to consider beef’s future, then look to its past. The industry’s tactics have not changed as much as you might think.

If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.