Michelle Dean Uncovers Some Truths About Snopes By Krista Stevens Highlight The history of Snopes, the legendary internet fact-finding site.
A Short Distance from Southie, but a World Away By tmerrigan Feature Tara Wanda Merrigan recalls navigating between the very different realms of Harvard and home.
The Rainbow Railroad to Canada for Gay Chechen Men By Krista Stevens Highlight Canada is taking in gay Chechen men subject to persecution, the risk to Canada-Russia relations be damned.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Danielle McNally, Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, Michelle Dean, and John Knight.
Changing of the Guard, Bee-Style By Ben Huberman Highlight When a queen bee dies, both her subjects and her beekeeper need to process the loss.
Twenty Years Later, The Dude Still Abides By Krista Stevens Highlight Despite being nominated for Academy Awards seven times throughout his career, Jeff Bridges doesn’t mind forever being Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski.
Camping with Kids: A Non-Primer By Reid Doughten Feature Reid Doughten revises his simple equation for combining camping with parenting toddlers.
Why Industrial Laundry Is Dirtier Than You Can Imagine By Krista Stevens Highlight When industrial laundry workers weren’t touching human feces, they had to deal with third-world working conditions and sexual harassment.
A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich People, and Moby Dick By Longreads Feature On the beauty and burdens of the long haul.
Assessing the Media’s Role in ‘What Happened’ By Sari Botton Highlight In profiling Hillary Clinton, David Remnick considers the many factors that contributed to her surprising loss in the 2016 election — including the press.
My Journey to the Heart of the FOIA Request By Spenser Mestel Feature Fifty years ago, the Freedom of Information Act gave the public access to government secrets — all you had to do was ask. How a simple request became a bureaucratic nightmare.
The End of ‘Rolling Stone’ As We Know It By Matt Giles Commentary Jann Wenner created a magazine that lasted for 50 years because he understood nostalgia sells.
When Op-Eds Relitigate Facts By Catherine Cusick Commentary The New York Times has standards. Its Op-Eds just don’t always have to meet them.
Junk Food is 21st Century Imperialism By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The first in a New York Times’ series about global obesity looks at the place of processed foods in Brazil.
Civilization Was Supposed to Make Our Lives Better, Right? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Cultivating crops led to permanent settlements, but also greed and exploitation. Was it all worth it?
From Ghost Town to Havana: Two Teams, Two Countries, One Game By Rick Paulas Feature Two baseball teams — one from the tough streets of West Oakland and the other from Havana — decide to play each other. When they meet in Cuba, a Berkeley documentary filmmaker captures it all.
Lena Waithe’s Historic Night at the Emmys By Matt Giles Commentary The writer, director, producer, and actor used her versatility to to take on the Hollywood system.
Harvard’s About-Face on Michelle Jones’s Acceptance By Sari Botton Commentary The ex-convict, who became a history scholar behind bars, prepares to start classes at NYU instead.
Mothering Is Not the Enemy of Creative Work By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Journalist Erika Hayasaki uses science to show how motherhood can improve creativity.
Writing the Monsignor By maryoconn Feature Mary O’Connell recalls her college efforts to write about a scandalized priest from her youth.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Eli Hager, Bryan Curtis, Terry DeMio and Dan Horn, Alexander Nazaryan, and Ellie Shechet.
The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Getting Through 9/11 By Matt Giles Commentary Joshua Bernstein went to his roof that day to drink. He stayed there for a week.
Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World By John Sherman Feature In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.
A Bakery Death Reveals the Vulnerable Lives of Temporary Workers By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A reporter goes undercover in a Canadian factory to document the vulnerable people in the temporary workforce.
Eileen Myles: There’s No Escaping History By Sari Botton Commentary The poet and one-time presidential candidate isn’t the least bit surprised by the state of our union.
A Long, Dark Night of the Soul at Donald Trump’s Childhood Home By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Alexander Nazaryan spends a night at Trump’s first home in Queens to see if it can tell him anything about the president.
180 Overdoses, 18 Deaths, One Week By Catherine Cusick Commentary The Cincinnati Enquirer’s harrowing chronicle of an ordinary week at the height of the heroin epidemic.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Literary Legend and Cat Blogger By Krista Stevens Highlight Ursula K. Le Guin may no longer publish fiction, but that hasn’t stopped her from writing.
The Oldest Restaurant in Kabul: Where Tradition Trumps Rockets By Maija Liuhto Feature For over 70 years, Bacha Broot, located in the center of the Old City of Kabul, has been serving chainaki — savory lamb stew — despite Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban.
Raising Brown Boys in Post-9/11 America By Sorayya Khan Feature Sorayya Khan recalls racist threats to her young sons after the 2001 attacks, and worries about them as young men living in ‘Trumpistan.’
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