“We want to ensure harassment-free climates in schools and workplaces, and we want to protect the rights of people with disabilities. What happens when these imperatives collide?”
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The Toxic Culture at Tesla
“The factory floors at America’s top seller of electric vehicles are rife with racial harassment, sexual abuse, and injuries on the job.”
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The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame
“How an army of artisans turned back centuries to restore Notre-Dame by hand, and wound up reviving something even greater than the cathedral itself.”
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The Nation’s Last Uranium Mill Plans to Import Estonia’s Radioactive Waste
“On a warm July evening, Yolanda Badback described the noxious fumes that haunt the air where she lives. Unlike the fragrance of sagebrush or the sweet scent of juniper and piñon, the odor is astringent and sulfuric, hard to breathe. Sometimes it forces Badback and her family of eight to stay indoors. At its worst, […]
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In 1967, a Black Man and a White Woman Bought a Home. American Politics Would Never Be the Same.
“What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration.”
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The Pill Messiah
“Douglas Randall Smith would have you believe he’s on the verge of a medical breakthrough that could end the opioid epidemic and keep millions of people alive.”
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Heavily Persecuted, Highly Influential: China’s Online Feminist Revolution
“On Chinese social media, women are censored and harassed, but undeterred.”
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Homeless in the City Where He Was Once Mayor
“After a life spent as a pillar of Bend’s civic life, Mr. Coyner had somehow reached a point of near total destitution, surrounded by the prosperity he had helped create.”
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What Does It Mean to Protect Children?
“This is the question that ripped an idyllic high-plains town asunder.”
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Weed Between the Lines: A Longreads Cannabis Collection
No matter how you choose to celebrate this year, take some time to revisit Longreads’ many 420-friendly original pieces and recommendations.
