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Longreads Best of 2015: Investigative Reporting
The best in investigative reporting.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, Pacific Standard, a co-investigation by NPR and ProPublica, and The New Yorker.
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Rivers We Destroy: A Reading List
Here are four stories on how humans have changed local and regional river systems, and the disastrous and sometimes deadly consequences.
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The Demolition of Workers’ Comp
A co-investigation by NPR and ProPublica: Workers’ compensation benefits have been decimated over the last few decades, leaving severely injured workers vulnerable at a time when they need the most help.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, The New York Review of Books, ProPublica, Texas Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, and Adult Magazine.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Moment Firestone Teamed Up with a Warlord
An excerpt from ProPublica and Frontline’s investigation into how the U.S. tire and rubber company Firestone ended up partnering with warlord Charles Taylor, who was taking over Liberia during the civil war in the early 1990s.
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The Effects of Untreated PTSD on Neighborhoods Plagued by Violence
Over the past 20 years, medical researchers have found new ways to quantify the effects of the relentless violence on America’s inner cities. They surveyed residents who had been exposed to violence in cities such as Detroit and Baltimore and noticed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): nightmares, obsessive thoughts, a constant sense of danger. […]
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Firestone and the Warlord
ProPublica and Frontline’s investigation into how the U.S. tire and rubber company Firestone ended up partnering with warlord Charles Taylor, who was taking over Liberia during the civil war in the early 1990s. In 1992 the company agreed to pay taxes to Taylor’s rebel government, and “over the next year, the company doled out more […]
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Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Stories
Stories that deserved more attention in 2015.
