Longreads Best of 2016: Our 25 Most Popular Exclusives of the Year

Here are the 25 most popular exclusives we published this year.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 12, 2016

‘I Feel Like a Fraud’: Confessions of a Broken-Down Domestic Violence Lawyer

After a year of defeats and unforeseen complications, one domestic violence attorney realizes she’d failed to help the abused women she’d set out to protect, and she reassess her objectives.

Source: Broadly
Published: Jul 1, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2,831 words)

Longreads Best of 2016: Here Are All of Our No. 1 Story Picks from This Year

All through December, we’ll be featuring Longreads’ Best of 2016. To get you ready, here’s a list of every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 12, 2016

How to Sleep

A physician’s guide to sleep in a stressful age.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec 9, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3,374 words)

Not All There

Gable never knew her mother when she was well or was told that a lobotomy caused her behavior. She only knew the erratic, unpredictable person who drank and raged and had little impulse control. Now a mother herself, Gable tries to make sense of the surgery and accept the person her mother was versus the person she once had been.

Author: Mona Gable
Source: STAT
Published: Oct 27, 2016
Length: 7 minutes (1,988 words)

Unerased: Counting Transgender Lives

A team of reporters, led by Meredith Talusan, have created a database in remembrance of the 111 transgender people murdered in the United States from 2010-2016, accompanied by a feature story discussing advocacy opportunities, including the roles of law enforcement and social media.

Source: Mic
Published: Dec 8, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,897 words)

Fighting for the Poor Under Trump

A profile of 28-year-old New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres, the first openly gay elected official in the Bronx and the youngest elected official in the city. Torres—who grew up in a Bronx housing project across the street from a former garbage dump that is now a Trump-owned golf course—has been fighting for the poor as chair of the Committee on Public Housing.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Dec 9, 2016
Length: 18 minutes (4,699 words)

Intake

An investigation into America’s largest psychiatric hospital chain, Universal Health Services, which faces allegations that it profits by routinely locking in patients who don’t need hospitalization.

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Dec 7, 2016
Length: 35 minutes (8,789 words)

Trumped and Abandoned

The invective of Trump supporters inspires Susan Faludi to take a look back at the “Angry White Men” of the 1990s who felt disenfranchised, and threatened by women like First Lady Hillary Clinton—men like Mike McNulty, a Second Amendment activist and documentarian whom Faludi interviewed twenty years ago.

Source: The Baffler
Published: Dec 7, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3,456 words)

How Social Media Is Killing Extreme Athletes

Armed with GoPros and streaming their exploits live on Facebook and YouTube, a new generation of adventurers are pressured into ever-more-dangerous stunts.

Source: The Outline
Published: Dec 8, 2016
Length: 8 minutes (2,094 words)