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Short Naps, Long Hours: How Autism Clinics Squeeze Medicaid Dollars Out of Preschoolers
“The industry has grown rapidly, straining state budgets. A focus on finances has led to overbilling, fraud and even harm.”
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Best of 2022: Profiles
A great profile accomplishes the nearly impossible by making you feel like you truly know someone you’ve never met. It’s a feat of empathy and insight, the kind of alchemy that turns reporting into rapport. The five examples here span all manner of tone and subject, from victims of gun violence to digital charlatans, but […]
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Living With My Ex
“In the space of two weeks, my partner came out as gay and told me she was pregnant. What could have been the end of our family turned into a new beginning.”
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‘It Comes for Your Very Soul’: How Alzheimer’s Undid My Dazzling, Creative Wife in Her 40s
“At 53, she died at least 20 years before her time, but there is much living to be had in 50—and she had it.”
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Plano Senior High Alum’s Instagram Quest to Find 1,122 Former Classmates
“An optometrist and Pokémon master Minh Nguyen has tracked down nearly 200 former classmates. It may have saved his life.”
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Japan’s Lonely Cherry Blossoms
Millions of people turn out to see Japan’s famous sakura blossoms. This year, Covid-19 kept the usual crowds at home, though the blossom makes a fitting metaphor for evanescence.
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Locked In, Priced Out
“The Appeal’s 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600 percent.”
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Help Us Publish Stories That Outlast the Noise
We’re a home for stories that linger. In 2017, I reached out to Candace Rardon, a writer and artist whose watercolor sketches I’d admired for years. Up until that point, I’d only edited traditional essays for Longreads, but I wanted to experiment with illustrated personal narratives. We brainstormed a visual direction, and the final piece […]
