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What The Past Three Months Have Been Like For QAnon Believers

by Krista Stevens March 31, 2021October 19, 2022

“A millennial stay-at-home mom from South Carolina, a gay couple from Texas, and a social worker in New York believed in QAnon. Now that Biden is president, they’re not sure where to go from here.”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads August 21, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Seema Jilani, Katy Kelleher, Carina del Valle Schorske, Martin Padgett, and Ben Lindbergh.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 31, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Barack Obama, Andrea Pitzer, Hannah Dreier, Ismail Muhammad, Niela Orr, Hanif Abdurraqib, Danielle A. Jackson, and Cassie Owens, and Karolina Waclawiak.

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

Naming the Psychological Effects of Climate Change: Solastalgia

by Krista Stevens December 10, 2019October 19, 2022

“The word he came up with was solastalgia, a portmanteau word of the Latin solus, which means ‘abandonment and loneliness,’ and nostalgia.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

Why Amanda Fortini Won’t Soon Be Leaving Las Vegas

by Krista Stevens February 4, 2020October 19, 2022

“Las Vegas is a place about which people have ideas. They have thoughts and generalizations, takes and counter-takes, most of them detached from any genuine experience and uninformed by any concrete reality.”

Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts

Open Secrets: Celebrity Sexuality and Athletic Abuse

by Longreads November 22, 2019October 19, 2022

Editors discuss the gender politics of music criticism, how young womxn drive conversations around cultural figures, institutionalized discrimination in sport, and more.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads December 13, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Craig Whitlock, Keren Blankfield, Ash Sanders, C.J. Hauser, and Brian Kevin.

Posted inEditor's Pick

“Some Conspiracy Theories Turn Out to be True…” Did the US Government Finally Vindicate the UFO Hunters?

by Carolyn Wells April 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“In other words, aliens? “Well, as I like to say, the sceptics have to be right every day,” Pope says. “The believers only need to be right once.””

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Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts

Editor’s Roundtable: Climate of the Future, Music of the Past

by Longreads October 4, 2019October 19, 2022

Longreads editors discuss stories in Miami New Times, The New Yorker, 5280 Magazine, and The Believer.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads February 7, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from David Enrich, Megan Stielstra, Natalie Weiner, Mark Leviton and Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Amanda Fortini.

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