Niños migrantes, muchos de los cuales son menores no acompañados, viajaron a la frontera de los Estados Unidos para escapar de violencia y pedir asilo. ¿Alguien está escuchando sus historias?

Migrant children, many of whom are unaccompanied minors, are traveling to the U.S. border to escape violence and seek asylum. Is anyone listening to their stories?

From abortion to immigration, a long-debunked scientific movement still casts long, confusing shadows over our most fraught debates.

Longreads editors discuss stories in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Outline, and CrimeReads.

Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, The New Yorker, and The California Sunday Magazine.

Closed borders and closed minds are trapping African LGBTI asylum seekers in hostile countries.

As the current oil boom attests. West Texas’ oil deposits come with high social and environmental costs.

Longreads editors discuss stories in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Kotaku, and The Globe and Mail.

When I was a kid, I wanted my antisemitic tormentors to accept me. I wanted to be their friend.

Wars and heightened border security have created a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean.

This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in Outside Magazine, Backchannel (WIRED), and The New York Times: Styles.

Family dynasties are neither new nor newly influential in pop.

From exploding Ford Pintos to racist algorithms, all harmful technologies are a product of unethical design. Yet, like car companies in the ’70s, today’s tech companies would rather blame the user.

Catherine Cusick, Kelly Stout, Ethan Chiel, and Aaron Gilbreath discuss stories by Wil S. Hylton, Josephine Livingstone, Jesse Barron, and Rivka Galchen.

This week, we’re discussing stories in The Cut, Vulture, The New York Times, Topic, and The Atavist.

How Canada’s new, educated, organized far-right has been using a video game app to try to influence mainstream politics and create a white ethno-state.

An unintended consequence of mandatory minimums has been to concentrate too much power in the hands of prosecutors. Journalist Emily Bazelon talks about how some cities are pushing back.

Nina Li Coomes reckons with the quandary of citizenship and the meaning of home.

In the story of one Mexican-American woman’s life, we can see the whole tragic story of the US-Mexico border’s transformation from a simple chain-link fence to a humanitarian crisis.

The winners of the Pulitzer Prize have been announced.

The death of an iconic California glacier signals the loss of one scientist’s work, the end of an epoch, and possibly the beginning of a new era of mass extinction.

Like so many of our lofty ideals, the “American Work Ethic” is actually two different standards — one for the wealthy and one for the poor — with two different interpretations of what work looks like.

In “An American Summer,” journalist Alex Kotlowitz tries to report on gun deaths on Chicago’s South Side with the same attention to survivors, anniversaries, and aftershocks that is paid to mass shootings.

Less than 8 percent of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s inductees are women. Time for it to step up and induct an all-female class in 2020.

“Not a single person was killed on the day of the rioting. But the following month, May, would conclude with 41 homicides — the most the city had experienced in a month since the 1970s.”

When Google Maps’ data renamed an African American neighborhood, it opened up residents to the looming forces of gentrification.

What’s the difference between Howard Stern and Tucker Carlson? There isn’t really one.

Your systems will not protect you.

Black women face outsized threats if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

A list of longreads to make sense of ‘Leaving Neverland.’