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Final Girl, Terrible Place
I was expecting a handy theory. What I found was a way of seeing that would help me decode a script I’d been stuck in for much of my life.
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How Student Debt Dragged A Generation Down — And What We Can Do About It
“A social and financial divide is forming — between those who have student debt, and those who do not — that will have ramifications for decades to come.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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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The Hare Krishnas of Coal Country
The world is full of make-believe. Some of it is sweet, some of it is sick. It persists because we have found no other antidote for pain.
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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.
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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.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing
Our top story picks in business writing this year.
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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.
