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The Man Behind Trump’s Facebook Juggernaut
Brad Parscale used social media to sway the 2016 election. He’s poised to do it again.
“Mark Changed the Rules”
“How Facebook went easy on Alex Jones and other right-wing figures.”
Zoom Towns — Where Tourists Never Leave
“There’s another population of people who came and never left: those freed by COVID from cubicles and work commutes.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Karen Hao, Rebecca Solnit, Mary H.K. Choi, and Andrew Buss.
When We Are Afraid
On teaching in a red state, the silences in our history lessons, and all I never learned about my hometown.
The Road to Becoming Enough
I began, if not to turn away from the mythical notion of a man to “complete” me, to accept that there was no love out there for me. I chose mountains instead.
The Mysterious Case of a Nameless Hiker
A friendly and charming hiker was known on the trail as “Mostly Harmless.” After his body was discovered in a tent in Florida, no one could figure out who he was.
‘This Wasn’t His First Time’
A kidnapping deemed a hoax, the newbie detective who cracked the case, and the Harvard-trained lawyer whose mental unraveling set the whole story in motion.
Best of 2025: All Our Number One Story Picks
Every story we selected for the number one slot in our weekly newsletter, all in one place.

