This week, we’re sharing stories from Brett Forrest, Lizzie Presser, Ahmet Altan, Lisa Miller, and James K. Williamson.
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Once Listed For $1 Billion. Sold For $100,000. What Just Happened?
It’s kind of confusing. Suffice it to say, it involves rich people, huge debt, and the late shah of Iran’s sister.
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Class Dismissed
When she attends an elite private college on scholarship, Alison Stine discovers that education isn’t quite the equalizer she expected it to be.
Posted inStory
Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100-Mile Race
Another beauty of endurance is that it is happening at all times. It is everywhere we look. To see someone, anyone, in this world is to witness someone engaged in a feat of endurance.
Posted inStory
Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing
Our top story picks in business writing this year.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Feature, Highlight, investigations, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
When Refugee Families are Separated, Women Carry the Burden
The story of a Somali family uprooted by war and separated by America’s broken refugee resettlement system — and the siblings who brought them back together.
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The Nonprofit Hospital That Makes Millions, Owns a Collection Agency and Relentlessly Sues the Poor
In partnership with MLK50, ProPublica investigates a nonprofit hospital system’s aggressive debt collection practices with poor patients: “Its own employees are no exception. Since 2014, Methodist has sued dozens of its workers for unpaid medical bills, including a hospital housekeeper sued in 2017 for more than $23,000. That year, she told the court, she made […]
Posted inNonfiction
Me and You
Two friends, Hurricane Katrina, a suicide, and the pain and beauty that holds us all together.
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How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
Jesse Barron goes to Huntsville, Alabama to tell a story of private equity, manufacturing, debt, and who ends up holding the bag.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Crime, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Meet Michael Gillespie, the Ransomeware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
Michael Gillespie has automated a way to decrypt ransomeware, and he gives his code away for free just to help people in need.
