This week, we’re sharing stories from Lakeidra Chavis, Jodi S. Cohen, Jennifer Smith Richards, Heidi Blake, Zandria F. Robinson, Michael Hall, and Eve Peyser.
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Longreads Best of 2019: Crime Reporting
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in crime reporting.
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The Nonprofit Hospital That Makes Millions, Owns a Collection Agency and Relentlessly Sues the Poor
In partnership with MLK50, ProPublica investigates a nonprofit hospital system’s aggressive debt collection practices with poor patients: “Its own employees are no exception. Since 2014, Methodist has sued dozens of its workers for unpaid medical bills, including a hospital housekeeper sued in 2017 for more than $23,000. That year, she told the court, she made […]
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The Navy Declines to Respond
If the U.S. is supposed to have the strongest Navy in the world, we’ve got problems — and it’s our servicepeople that pay the price.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine Staff, Melissa del Bosque, Nitasha Tiku, Sarah Gilman, and Tift Merritt.
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Written On the Body: One Family’s History
“We, as family, got so much from their trash. I never wanted to forget that I was the janitor’s kid before I was anything else.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Ijeoma Oluo, Patricia Lockwood, Michael Shaw, Mairead Small Staid, and Adriana Gallardo.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Christian Miller, Megan Rose, and Robert Faturechi; Robin Hemley; David Gauvey Herbert; Ian Parker; and Meghan Daum.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Reading List
The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The winners of the Pulitzer Prize have been announced.
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Shoot First, Ask Questions Later (Or Don’t)
Officer Stephen Mader got fired for deciding not to shoot someone, and if that doesn’t say a lot about the problems with police culture in the U.S., I don’t know what to tell you.
