Everybody Smiley Poops
A meditation on the language of emojis.
Working Anything But 9 to 5
Scheduling technology has made it easy for companies to automate employees’ schedules, but it leaves low-income parents with hours of chaos.
How a Squad of Ex-Cops Fights Police Abuses
In Broward County, Florida, a group of former police officers are using bold tactics to help public defenders.
What I Saw in Ferguson
Jelani Cobb on the situation in Ferguson, Missouri following the tragic death of Michael Brown.
Falling: Love and Marriage in a Conservative Indian Family
A new Longreads Exclusive from River Teeth: Debie Thomas shares her story about growing up in a conservative Indian family and reconciling the idea of arranged marriages with the Western world’s version of falling in love.
Edward Snowden: The Untold Story
James Bamford tracks down Snowden in Moscow to go deep inside the story of “the most wanted man in the world.”
Infant Possibilities
Sequencing the genomes of babies can reveal information that can save their lives, but that information can also be used for less noble things, like giving parents the ability to select their baby’s eye color.
The Believer Interview: Ice Cube
Excerpted from The Believer’s new book, Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of the Believer Music Interviews.
We Don’t Need No Education
Ben Hewitt describes “unschooling” his children Fin and Rye, who do “self-directed, adult-facilitated life learning in the context of their own unique interests” rather than attend public schools or participate in the kind of homeschooling that mirrors a public education.
Looking for Lilly
A complicated parental kidnapping cracks a window into the Sunshine State’s growing right-wing fringe, a bizarro world where Lincoln and Obama are a tag team bent on destroying America, the end times are ever nigh, and the Confederacy lives on.
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