How the scruffy kids of the ’60s youth movement turned cooking from a shameful job into a lauded profession.
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Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Standout, Story
Bundyville Chapter One: A War in the Desert
Cliven Bundy and his sons led two armed standoffs against the federal government and beat them twice in court. The Bundys and their supporters see themselves as Patriots fighting government overreach. Others see them as domestic terrorists rallying extremists and conspiracy theorists to their side. What is the truth?
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2017: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction
How ‘Cops’ Became the Most Polarizing Reality TV Show in America
What one of TV’s longest-running reality shows says about race and our relationship with the police.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Story
How ‘Cops’ Became the Most Polarizing Reality TV Show in America
What one of TV’s longest-running reality shows says about race and our relationship with the police.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Daughter as Detective
A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Of Breakdowns and Breakthroughs
After suicides and heartbreak ravage her family, Jenny Aurthur finds she has no choice but be transformed.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Of Breakdowns and Breakthroughs
After suicides and heartbreak ravage her family, Jenny Aurthur finds she has no choice but be transformed.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Current Events, Media, Unapologetic Women
We’re Going Through Hell, and Men Need to Join Us There
The momentum is happening and it’s exhausting for women.
Posted inNonfiction
Raising Brown Boys in Post-9/11 America
Sorayya Khan recalls racist threats to her young sons after the 2001 attacks, and worries about them as young men living in ‘Trumpistan.’
