Ida B. Wells-Barnett Was Born Today in 1862 By Danielle Jackson Highlight Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862.
The Crushing, Ever-Present Weight of Debt By Krista Stevens Commentary “We were nothing to these companies but a number in a database. And they fully controlled our fates.”
To Reflect, To Love, and To Protest: A Pride Month Reading List By Emily Perper Reading List A roundup of longreads to celebrate Pride Month.
Could Kratom End the Opioid Crisis? By Krista Stevens Commentary Only if the US government doesn’t classify it as a Schedule I controlled substance.
A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead) By Carolita Johnson Feature Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.
The Menace and the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles By Jacob Silverman Feature What does it mean to experiment with technology that we know will kill people, even if it could save lives?
Drought In Post-Apartheid Cape Town: An Interview with Eve Fairbanks By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary United in a common struggle, the drought has leveled the racially divided city’s physical and social barriers in profound ways.
Small-Town New Hampshire’s Battle with Bears and Liberty By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Grafton, New Hampshire has a bear problem, but how much of the problem is the result of human behavior?
How Vietnam Shaped Robert S. Mueller By Krista Stevens Commentary After serving in combat during the Vietnam War, nothing Robert S. Mueller encounters will ever be as intense.
When the Amber Alert System Fails: An Abduction on Navajo Land By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight It took the murder of a young Navajo girl to get the tribal police to refine their Amber Alert system. But will these changes work?
K.D. Lang Will Indulge Your Craving for “Constant Craving” By Krista Stevens Commentary K.D. Lang’s seminal album Ingénue is 25 years old. Penelope Green talks to K.D. Lang about how she’s evolved as an artist in the last quarter century.
“Give a Sister Her Due”: Why Richmond, Virginia, Should Honor the Mother of Rock ‘n’ Roll By Krista Stevens Commentary Legendary electric guitarist and gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe chose Richmond, Virginia as her home for over a decade. It’s about time the city honored her.
Welcome to the New Transnational Paradigm By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The decline of national political authority requires a new transnational political system. First we have to stop denying the problem.
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove By Jonny Auping Feature “If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
The Way We Treat Our Pets Is More Paleolithic Than Medieval By Longreads Feature Hunter-gatherers tended to think of pets as part of the family, and so do we. But in other time periods, intimacy with animals has been more taboo.
Death Rattle: The Body’s Betrayals By Ellen Wayland-Smith Feature Since my father’s death, I dream about descents and falls. How, without warning, gravity has you in its grip.
Speaking Candidly about Opioid Dependence and Legal, Safe Alternatives By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One journalist shares what her experience with prescription painkillers taught her about decriminalization and recovery.
It’s Never Too Late to Apologize By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Bari Weiss, Bret Stephens, and Katie Roiphe have to try to be better, right along with the rest of us.
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.
What Happens Between What Seems Like All the Facts: On Interviewing Artists By Jonny Auping Feature Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.
The Month of Giving Dangerously By Elizabeth Greenwood Feature Elizabeth Greenwood decides to give everything: time, money, praise, forgiveness. But when does generosity become a mania for giving?
Inside the Absurdity of ‘Spice World’ By Matt Giles Commentary Sirin Kale illustrates the film’s appeal to a generation of adolescents who were struck by the Spice Girls’ inherent coolness.
Art in the Age of Blockchain By Michelle Legro Commentary Why a rare Pepe meme is now easier to authenticate than a Leonardo.
Longreads Best of 2017: Local Reporting By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in local reporting.
The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2017 By Longreads Reading List The personal essays, original reporting, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.
We’re All Alabama Now By Bob Moser Commentary Alabama, it turns out, isn’t an American outlier after all.
My Secondhand Lonely By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Raised by a single, independent mother, one young woman struggles with her familial inheritance and the relationship between self-sufficiency and social isolation.
