The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed

Adrian Chen travels to the Philippines, where he meets the employees who work for content moderation companies that scrub objectionable content from social media sites.

Source: Wired
Published: Oct 23, 2014
Length: 12 minutes (3,169 words)

Pot Kids

Inside the quasi-legal science-free world of medical marijuana for kids.

Source: Time Magazine
Published: Oct 22, 2014
Length: 15 minutes (3,949 words)

Bash Mitzvahs!

A New York magazine feature about over the top Manhattan Bar Mitzvahs, circa 1998: “Never have so many 13-year-olds had so much to dress up for. Some say the low-key bar mitzvah is coming back—but not until the stock market crashes.”

Published: Mar 9, 1998
Length: 19 minutes (4,829 words)

Living on the Hyphen

“My life is conducted in Spanish, English, and Spanglish, and I have chosen these situations, but not entirely.”

Source: Oxford American
Published: Oct 15, 2014
Length: 20 minutes (5,131 words)

Anarchy and Education in 1970s Britain

Idealistic British activists created a wave experimental schools in the 1970’s—places without rules, timetables or even compulsory lessons. So what became of the kids who attended these free-for-alls?

Source: BBC
Published: Oct 21, 2014
Length: 17 minutes (4,445 words)

Longreads’ Best of WordPress, Vol. 7

10 of our favorite stories from across all of WordPress: Featuring Guernica, Bklynr, Wired, Cincinnati Magazine, and more.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 22, 2014

Johnny Cash’s dark California days

Johnny Cash biographer Robert Hilburn on the musician’s life in California during the 1960’s, a dark decade “fueled by drugs and guilt over the breakup of his marriage.”

Published: Oct 12, 2013
Length: 14 minutes (3,714 words)

Who’s Left After True Crime – Our College Pick

“During eight months of reporting about the life of a student whose father murdered her mother, Kathryn Varn did a lot of things right.”

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 21, 2014

How Lincoln Played the Press

Historian Gary Wills on President Lincoln’s skills as a self-publicist and agility dealing with the media.

Author: Gary Wills
Published: Nov 6, 2014
Length: 11 minutes (2,900 words)

The Stradivarius Affair

Buzz Bissinger reports about the case of the stolen Lipinksi Stradivarius violin last winter, which was recovered by the Milwaukee Police Department and FBI after they tracked down its thief, a street criminal who had allegedly dreamed of stealing one in prison.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Oct 17, 2014
Length: 27 minutes (6,779 words)