Unlocking the Genetic Code of Poverty By Michelle Weber Highlight The emerging science of epigenetics argues that poverty can change our genetic expression.
While They Were Creating the Album, the Beastie Boys Were Also Creating Themselves By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight A look at how the Beastie Boys invented themselves with their 1992 album Check Your Head.
She Got Hacked So You Don’t Have To By Krista Stevens Highlight At GQ, Sarah Jeong willingly got “spearphished,” a sophisticated email hack that uses your trust against you.
Can an Old Satire, Reborn, Survive the New Political Climate? By Sari Botton Highlight Meghan Daum is nervous about the reception for her reissued debut novel, a satire of small towns and coastal elites.
The Revolution Will Be Handmade! By Krista Stevens Highlight Knitting and sewing circles have long been the perfect environments for women to organize.
The Complicated Power of DIY Justice By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Canadian vigilantes with names like Creep Hunters make popular videos busting pedophiles, and many are now refining their tactics to try and go mainstream.
The (Re)selling of Maria Sharapova By Longreads Feature On the longevity of Maria Sharapova, who has built a brand beyond the bounds of her tennis stardom that has made her incredibly wealthy, but still striving for more.
Letters to My Molester: Unraveling a Decade of Childhood Abuse By Krista Stevens Highlight Karen Durrie examines the feelings of complicity that encouraged her to correspond with her attacker.
The Faces of Deportation in Southern California By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Trump’s immigration policy has exiled tax-paying, working-class people of Mexican descent to limbo in Tijuana.
The “Facebook of Money” That Wasn’t By Ben Huberman Highlight Tilt was once a start-up with extravagant soirées, hazy business plans, and a $375 million valuation. Then it came to the end.
‘But Islam Does Not Forbid Love’: How Young Muslims Define ‘Halal Dating’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Today’s young Muslims are finding ways to develop romantic relationships and while observing Islamic beliefs forbidding pre-marital sex.
Rolling Down the Highway with the Sum Total of Human Knowledge By Michelle Weber Highlight Google had a plan to scan every book in the world. 25 million books later, the project lost its way.
Tell Me What Donut You Prefer, and I’ll Tell You Who You Are By Michelle Weber Highlight Have you ever thought really hard about donuts? Like, 7,000 words hard? Keaton Lamle did.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories by Ijeoma Oluo, Michael Hall, Erika Hayasaki, Jerry Saltz, and Caren Chesler.
Pills and Thrills and Daffodils By Eva Tenuto Feature Years before Prince died of an overdose, his music provided a lifeline for Eva Tenuto.
Before Becoming an Art Critic, Jerry Saltz Wanted to Draw 10,000 Dante-Inspired Altarpieces By Ben Huberman Highlight On the project that almost drove Jerry Saltz into despair.
When Innovation Fails: Doing Hard Time in the Offender-Monitoring Business By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When 3M, the Post-It Note manufacturer, began making electronic ankle monitors for corrections, it challenged the company’s long-heald philosophy about design and innovation.
When Alzheimer’s Disease Relieves Us of the Pain in Our Past By Krista Stevens Highlight For Maria Browning’s mother, Alzheimer’s Disease has dimmed old torments.
Where Were You the First Time You Realized the Government Wasn’t Always On the Ball? By Michelle Weber Highlight The 1969 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara galvanized environmental activism, and Pacific Standard’s oral history is a great read.
A History of American Protest Music: When Nina Simone Sang What Everyone Was Thinking By Tom Maxwell Feature “Mississippi Goddam” was an angry response to tragedy, in show tune form.
There’s No Way Hannah Can Afford That Apartment By Pam Mandel Highlight Over six seasons, Girls has not been even remotely realistic about the earnings of a freelance writer.
Alexander Chee: ‘He thought I wanted monogamy more than him, and I didn’t.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Alexander Chee didn’t realize that his boyfriend, M., was pretending to be someone content to be monogamous.
Top of the Muffin to You! 25 Great Food Moments in “Seinfeld” By Krista Stevens Highlight From the chocolate babka to the big salad, Eater serves up 25 favorite food moments from Seinfeld.
Coretta Scott King Fuelled the Civil Rights Movement with ‘Courage, Dignity, and Poise’ By Krista Stevens Highlight How Coretta Scott King’s “grace, diginity, and poise” in the face of horrific tragedy fuelled the Civil Rights Movement.
On Island: Journeying to Penal Colonies, from Rikers to Robben By Roohi Choudhry Feature On journeys to Rikers Island in New York City and Robben Island in South Africa, Roohi Choudhry examines issues of incarceration and racism, and envisions a day when the convicted are no longer exiled to penal colonies.
Opioid Addicts Are Losing Their Memories and Doctors Don’t Know Why By Krista Stevens Highlight How does opioid overdose permanently damage the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory?
The Pitfalls and Promise of the Horseshoe Crab, Unlikely Biomedical Hero By Michelle Weber Highlight Pharmaceutical companies catch half a million horseshoe crabs a year to drain their blood for medical use. But is this practice sustainable?
The Slacklash Is Here. You Should Do Something About It. By Michelle Weber Highlight Is the app that ate email eating into a whole lot more—like privacy, productivity, and personal time?
#Vanlife: Selling Their Staged World, One Social Media Post at A Time By Krista Stevens Highlight Is the social media movement a form of free-spirited nomadism, or a clever selling of the soul to brands?
Kimberly, No Longer With the Good Hair By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How one woman finally styled her hair in a way that determined who she was and demanded that her loving grandmother accept her decision as a sign of strength.
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