We’re Not Done Here By Laurie Penny Feature How the MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.
Native Americans’ Persecution Continues; Only the Uniforms Have Changed By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Between deadly police shootings and a white correctional officer sexually assualting Native American women, the Bad River Band of the Ojibwe nation feels more preyed upon than protected.
Homelessness and Colorado’s Public Lands By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Illegal encampments on Colorado’s public lands are creating unsafe conditions for locals and damaging the land with trash.
Me Too, Except I Didn’t Stay Silent By Longreads Feature In the places I’ve worked, sexual harassment was identified as something that could destroy an organization. It was a story with consequences.
Steve Bannon’s New Scheme By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Exactly what has Steve Bannon been up to since leaving the White House in August?
Longreads Best of 2017: Local Reporting By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in local reporting.
How Angry Racists Plotted to Kill Somali Refugees in Kansas By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A small town welcomed hundreds of Somali refugees. A militia splinter group wanted them dead.
Longreads Best of 2017: Political Writing By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in political writing.
How Russia Has Been Spying in Plain Sight in San Francisco By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What was going on at Russia’s consulate in San Francisco?
When Will the Auto Industry Succumb to the #MeToo Revolution? By Sari Botton Highlight The New York Times investigates ongoing sexual harassment and misconduct at Ford.
Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.
We’re All Alabama Now By Bob Moser Commentary Alabama, it turns out, isn’t an American outlier after all.
Suburbanizing Survivalism By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary Inside the booming business of survival food.
Climate Change and Social Disorder in Central Africa By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight As climate change dries Central Africa’s massive Lake Chad, extremists and militant governments distrupt the lives of the tribes who once made their life here.
The Consent of the (Un)governed By Laurie Penny Feature “Freedom” is just another word for being under the thumb of a powerful white man — for now.
How Some Apache People Deal with Intergenerational Trauma By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight In the mountains of northern Mexico, some of Geronimo’s decedents try to forgive the perpetrators of the wars against Native Americans.
“This Frenzied, Dirty, Impossible Evacuation” By Michelle Weber Highlight Londoner Tom Lamont spent months reporting for this GQ piece on the ins, outs, and aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Monster By Michelle Weber Highlight Does art exist in the world of personality and petty grievance and predation, or does it float in a morally-neutral ether? Depends who you ask.
Gossip and News, Strange Bedfellows By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Recent stories exposing powerful, abusive men suggest there’s value in taking rumors seriously.
Brit Bennett Reflects on Living the Past Year in “Trump Time” By Danielle Jackson Highlight How the whiplash-like event of Trump following the nation’s first black president has “compressed time.”
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.
L.A.’s Underground Museum is a Vital Hub of Contemporary Black Culture By Danielle Jackson Highlight The space has become a vital convening point for creatives, culture workers, and audiences interested in ideas of black excellence.
The Town Where Trump Can Do No Wrong By Mike Dang Highlight He hasn’t built a wall or repealed Obamacare, but these Trump supporters say they will support him no matter what.
In the Wake of Weinstein and #MeToo, Why Does R. Kelly Still Have an Audience? By Danielle Jackson Highlight Women of color who have been singled out by sexual predators deserve our collective fury too.
Harvey Weinstein’s Failed Attempt to Hire Private Eyes to Silence His Accusers By Mike Dang Highlight Weinstein hired private investigators who used fake names to dig up dirt on his accusers.
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.
Meditations in an Emergency By Michelle Legro Highlight In this oral history of the 2016 election, the media loses the narrative thread it had been creating for decades.
Can Portland’s River Cleanup Correct Environmental Injustice? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The Willamette River, a superfund site, was once Portland’s lifeblood. A massive cleanup project could restore it for the communities of color that had long relied on it for food, work, and leisure.
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.
We’re Going Through Hell, and Men Need to Join Us There By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary The momentum is happening and it’s exhausting for women.
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