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Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. Inside the Snitch Tank Edward Humes | The Orange County Register | Jan. 1, 2016 |Â 77 minutes (19,430 words) Edward Humes painstakingly […]
On regionality, class, and culture, from Waffle House to the Cheesecake Factory.
Women of color are disproportionately targeted by the war on drugs and broken windows policing.
All through December, we’ll be featuring Longreads’ Best of 2016. To get you ready, here’s a list of every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Katie Prout was all set to teach her homeward-bound Navy Officer brother everything she learned in swim class. Then the Trump administration issued new orders.
On regionality, class, and culture, from Waffle House to the Cheesecake Factory.
Women of color are disproportionately targeted by the war on drugs and broken windows policing.
Europe’s “First Lady of Jazz” moved to New York in 1955, played for five more years, then disappeared — while royalty checks piled up with her record label.
More than fifty years ago, one man tried to hold the Coors brewery CEO for ransom. Things went very badly.
In minimum security, the cook-ups took place on empty top bunk beds. Mattresses were removed, and four or five prisoners would gather around the makeshift table with beef sticks, cheese sticks, squeeze cheese, turkey sticks, dried beans, rice, bags of chips, pickles, jalapenos, packs of tuna, and anything else worth wrapping up in a tortilla. […]
