Barbara Ehrenreich on Writing to Think By Krista Stevens Highlight Barbara Ehrenreich on thinking as an antidote to “the unknown and potentially menacing.”
How Lobbyists Normalized the Use of Chemical Weapons on American Civilians By Longreads Feature Or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the gas.
Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak By Minda Honey Feature Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.
Lurve You? Or Loathe You? By Sari Botton Highlight Maybe Woody Allen’s romantic comedies weren’t terribly romantic after all.
The Placeless and the Privileged By Ben Huberman Highlight On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another “lifestyle choice.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Mark Arax, David Grann, Stephanie Nolen, Eleanor Cummins, and David Marchese.
Letter to a Dog Walking Service By Diane Mehta Feature Diane Mehta adopted a rescue dog but then questioned her own salvation from the chaos of daily migraines.
Struggling to Balance Business and Conservation in the Amazon Basin By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Driving through the Amazon Basin on a single road to see whether Brazil can balance economic development with rainforest conservation.
Jimmy Buffet® Incorporated By Krista Stevens Highlight Jimmy Buffett is a master at marketing his beach bum lifestyle to the T.G.I.F crowd.
The Return and Disappearance of Football Star Jackie Wallace By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Football star Jackie Wallace’s life has taken him from the Super Bowl to the homeless camps of New Orleans, and he’s missing once again.
What If Forensic Science Isn’t Really Science? By Michelle Legro Highlight When bad forensics enter the courtroom, it can become impossible to get rid of them.
Alan Watts and the Eternal Present By Tom Maxwell Highlight To know happiness in the future, we must be happy now.
Vanishing As a Way to Reclaim Your Life By Aaron Gilbreath Feature On the eve of her marriage, an adventurous young woman tests how free she really wants to be.
Living That Early Bird Life, But Differently By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Why is the iconic early bird special disappearing in Florida’s retirement communties?
The Cities in Me By Sorayya Khan Feature Novelist Sorayya Khan maps her path from Islamabad to Solvay.
His Life’s Set Prize: The Story of Polar Explorer Henry Worsley By Krista Stevens Highlight Sometimes, knowing when to go home is the most important decision you can make on a polar expedition.
The Dark Side of Amazon’s Job Creation By Mike Dang Highlight Is any new job a good job? A look at Amazon’s warehouse jobs, where workers struggle to keep up.
The Couple Who Turned a California Desert Into a Multi-Billion Dollar Snack Empire By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Taxpayers have helped Stewart and Lynda Resnick turn an irrigated desert into a dangerous and lucrative agricultural gamble.
A Teen and a Toy Gun By Leah Sottile Feature This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Maternity Clothes for Women Who Hate Maternity Clothes By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A close, personal look at the evolution of the maternity clothing industry.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Masha Gessen, Molly Osberg, T. S. Mendola, Alexander Chee, and George Murray.
Translation is Messy, Which is Why Google Translate Will Never Be Very Good at It By Ben Huberman Highlight The popular online tool is great at rapid decoding. Extracting meaning? Not so much.
Unpacking Forty Years of Fandom For a Losing Team By Kevin Sampsell Feature Kevin Sampsell examines his love of football — and a team that’s never won a Super Bowl.
The Woman Who Helped Daniel Mendelsohn Become a Writer By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How a septuagenarian friend taught critic Daniel Mendelsohn to see the world as a writer.
Distraction is the New Censorship By Catherine Cusick Highlight Ideas don’t need to be deleted or redacted to be silenced. They can just be drowned out.
Why We Love to Hate Tom Brady By Tricia Romano Commentary The Gwyneth Paltrow of the NFL must be stopped.
The Mutilated and the Disappeared By Alice Driver Feature A visit to the only shelter in Mexico for migrants who have been mutilated along the migrant trail.
Los mutilados y los desaparecidos By Alice Driver Feature Una visita al único refugio en México para inmigrantes que han sido mutilados a lo largo de la ruta migratoria.
Decisions, Decisions By Sari Botton Highlight Masha Gessen considers the nature of choice, for immigrants and trans people.
A Toxic Tour Through Underground Ohio By Justin Nobel Feature A booming injection well industry is pumping toxic waste deep into the earth in Ohio’s rural towns.
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