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Stephen Rodrick Returns Home to Flint
The human damage is incalculable. Think of a mother waking in the middle of the night to make formula for her baby girl and unwittingly using liquid death as a mixer. Lead poisoning stunts IQs in children, many of whom in Flint are already traumatized by poverty, arson and rampant gunfire outside their doors. And […]
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Seven Takes on Obama for the Final State of the Union
Stories from Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and more.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Judd Apatow: The Rolling Stone Interview
“I started in Woodbury and then my parents divorced and we moved to Syosset, next door. They separated when I was in sixth grade, got back together, then separated again between eight and ninth grade, I think. Everyone in my neighborhood, they’d start out living in a big house and then their parents would divorce […]
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The Rolling Stones’ Dark Masterpiece
Many people say the 1960s ended at Altamont, when the Hell’s Angels fatally stabbed an eighteen year-old black man named Meredith Hunter during a huge, Woodstock-like music festival. The Rolling Stones were playing “Under My Thumb” during the murder, just feet away. In Slate, Jack Hamilton writes about the album the Rolling Stones recorded after […]
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
A Girl’s Guide to Missiles
A professor returns to the California military base where she grew up to make sense of her family’s role developing weapons for the US government.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Ban, the Wall: Bearing Witness
Which of our neighbors have been rounded up so far?
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Nothing Beside Remains (of the Space Jam Website)
Last week, Rolling Stone came out with a fantastically detailed and weird deep dive into the history of the Space Jam website. While technically operating under the purview of one of the world’s largest entertainment companies, a ragtag group of unsupervised young coders built something really revolutionary. The site was a pioneering example of how a studio could […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. Amor Prohibido Jeff Winkler | Texas Monthly | Aug. 20, 2015 | 36 minutes (9,000 words) Twenty years after Selena’s death, devotion […]
