The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Moira Donegan, Leonora LaPeter Anton, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Linda Besner, and Geraldine DeRuiter.
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.
You Are What You Hear By Pauline Campos Feature Pauline Campos tries to forget the harsh words that shaped her understanding of her body growing up — for her daughter’s sake, and her own.
It’s Hard to See Seafood As a Healthy Choice After Reading This By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A fish biologist makes a strong case against eating fish.
Every Woman Her Own Bodyguard By Longreads Feature Before women got the right to vote, they learned jiu-jitsu and boxing to defend themselves on the streets
Only a Fool Buys Kombucha on a Tuesday By Michelle Weber Highlight “Off-peakers” try to save time and money by avoiding a 9-to-5 schedule.
Smell, Memory By Longreads Feature Perfumers evoke the elegance of an imagined tennis game, not the stench of a real one.
How Are There Still Beauty Pageants When Feminists Have Been Protesting Them for 50 Years? By Sari Botton Highlight Roxane Gay considers the lasting impact of protests against the Miss America Pageant that took place half a century ago.
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.
The End of the Line for New York City By Michelle Legro Commentary Without a reliable subway system, the city “won’t die, but it will become a different place.”
Dance Me to the End of Love By Abigail Rasminsky Feature Abigail Rasminsky dreamed of becoming a professional dancer. Then she got hurt.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Emily Chang, Kiera Feldman, Motoko Rich, David J. Unger, and Nicole Chung.
The Digital Age Won’t Kill Paper By Ben Huberman Highlight Just like handwriting survived long after the introduction of print, paper is still very much part of our internet-era economy.
What to Do With a Man Who Has a Story, and a Gun By Lisa Romeo Feature Lisa Romeo recalls her first college romance, when she was willing to overlook a lot — until she wasn’t.
How the American Meat Industry Exploits Undocumented Laborers By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Meat processing is one of the most dangerous jobs in America, even more so if you’re one of the undocumented immigrants who sanitizes the facilities.
The High Cost of Becoming a Writer as a Single Mom By Sari Botton Highlight Stephanie Land endured poverty, loneliness, and more to pursue her dream of being a writer.
Steve Bannon’s New Scheme By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Exactly what has Steve Bannon been up to since leaving the White House in August?
The More We Disrupt, The More Things Are Exactly The Same By Michelle Weber Commentary TL;DR: tech titans have a lot of sex and drug parties at which they disrupt conventional morality by… replicating conventional sexist, heteronormative behaviors.
My Daughter Died, But I’m Still Mothering Her By Jacqueline Dooley Feature Jacqueline Dooley recalls her difficult transition from being a mother with earthly duties, to becoming one with more spiritual concerns for a teenage daughter with terminal cancer.
Fake It Till You Make It By Sari Botton Commentary On the pressure to pretend there’s no fallout after your parents’ divorce.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sarah Smith, Mattathias Schwartz, John Woodrow Cox, Justin Heckert, and Jonah Weiner.
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.
The Other People in Springfield By Imran Siddiquee Feature Imran Siddiquee considers the ways in which his identities — as a Bangladeshi-American and as a man — were shaped by growing up in the shadow of The Simpsons.
Who Benefits from Homeless Relocation Programs? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Many American cities offer the homeless free bus tickets to move somewhere, but do these relocation programs do vunerable populations more harm than good?
Life as a Photographer with ALS: ‘As Much Sky As You Can Get!’ By Krista Stevens Highlight How an artist keeps working despite living with ALS.
Tearing the Heart from the Music Industry By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Digitization has removed the humanity from the music business, from collaboration to mutual respect.
This is How You Say Goodbye By Lillian Ann Slugocki Feature After a series of losses, Lillian Slugocki tries to make sense of death — and life in the wake of others’ passing.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Susan Chira and Catrin Einhorn, John Branch, Amanda Mull, Mimi O’Donnell and Adam Green, and Mansi Choksi.
The Volcanologist’s Dilemma By Ben Huberman Highlight In Naples, scientists find themselves grappling with unpredictable volcanoes and skeptical residents.
A Muslim, a Christian, and a Baby Named “God” By Rachel Pieh Jones Feature Rachel Pieh Jones, a Christian American living in Djibouti, reflects on her friendship with a Muslim woman there, and the more universal aspects of faith.
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