“He likes talking about polio and the lung, and about his life, because what terrifies him…is that the world will forget what polio was like, and what he achieved in spite of it.”
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Caring Without Touching
“Everything about the way we work has been transformed.” Gavin Francis talks about life as a Scottish doctor during COVID-19.
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Brené Brown: ‘I think we’re looking for each other.’
“In a country where nobody can agree on much, we seem to agree on Brené Brown.”
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Yes, The US Government Spies on US Journalists
“If we do not know what our government is doing, we cannot hold it accountable. If we do know, our enemies know too. That can be dangerous.”
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What Happens When You Go Offline
The Information Age is also the age of information overload. Here’s what one person learned about the human brain after cleansing himself of screens.
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The Lonely World of Family Life
“The boundaries between the worlds of families and everyone else in society seem to be getting more and more entrenched, and transgressing them is frowned upon.”
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The ‘Accidental Hero’ Who Saved the Internet from WannaCry
“That’s when her son came upstairs and told her, a little uncertainly, that he seemed to have stopped the worst malware attack the world had ever seen.”
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Five Longreads Stories Selected for 2020 Editions of the ‘Best American’ Series
Congratulations to Matthew Salesses, Tim Requarth, Mojgan Ghazirad, Shanna B. Tiayon, Joe Fassler, and The Counter, our partner in co-publishing Fassler’s piece.
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Sharing Food to Feed A Family’s Soul
Food feeds the body, but cooking for other people feeds human connections.
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From Russia, With Malice
“But there is another reason for the government’s alarmingly inadequate response: a president who sees attempts to counter the Russia threat as a personal affront.”