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Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician
If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.
#DeleteFacebook? It’s Not So Easy
We use Facebook to access certain apps and stay in touch with distant friends and relatives. Deleting Facebook won’t stop other companies from misusing our data.
In Sickness, In Health — and In Prison
Most people know prisoners can marry. Few remember the co-ed prison, the impromptu courthouse wedding and the Supreme Court ruling that allows them to do so.
On Silence (or, Speak Again)
Elissa Bassist breaks her silence about everything she’s not supposed to talk about and comes out alive.
‘What Would Social Media Be Like As the World Is Ending?’
In Mark Doten’s “Trump Sky Alpha,” a journalist who has survived Trump’s nuclear apocalypse gets an assignment from what’s left of the New York Times Magazine: find out what people were tweeting as the bombs fell.
Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?
In a little more than a decade, Facebook has become one of the most important technology companies in the world. But as it’s grown, the company has had to try to figure out how to govern its 2 billion users, something it hasn’t quite managed. In light of that, Max Read grapples with an increasingly […]
Longreads Best of 2018: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
After the Miracle
The Bangalore-based tech company called Infosys employs more people than Facebook and Google combined. It builds and maintains software for large American companies, and it helped build India’s IT industry. Now that industry is bracing for not only massive layoffs, but what the author calls the end of “India’s dominance of IT services”.
Can This Tech Company’s Digital Border Wall Secure it More Government Defense Contracts?
Looking inside the new tech company who is building a cost-effective digital wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

