The Marshall Islands’ first national soccer team discovers what “home” can mean—on a field in Arkansas.
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The Eloquent Vindicator in the Electric Room
No one remembers the assassination of Congressman James M. Hinds. What do we risk by making it just another part of American history?
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Longreads Best of 2022: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
All the stories we’ve selected as number one in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Tiffany Stanley, Raj Telhan, Alex Pareene, Nico Muhly, and Chris Heath.
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The Family Is Political
U.S. immigration law has a history of excluding “undesirables” from citizenship through policy. It’s doing it now with LGBTQ families, in spite of marriage equality.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
The Palette is Political
There is little in the world that is not in some way political, including YouTube makeup tutorials.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Justin Heckert, Hannah Louise Poston, Anne Helen Petersen, Jiayang Fan, and Rachel Greenwald Smith.
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“This Is Our Regional Refugee Crisis”
The U.S. immigration system is ill-equipped to deal with refugees who are feeling real violence and hardship but who don’t qualify for asylum.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
To Tell the Story, These Journalists Became Part of the Story
In two recent books about immigrant families seeking asylum in the U.S., the authors’ attempts to help become part of their subjects’ stories.
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In Service of the Slender Man: When Teen Girls Become Murderous
Alex Mar on how and why teen-girl duos become murderous.
