Veteran HIV/AIDS reporter and Christodora author Tim Murphy’s devastating recollection of a drug addled love affair he had with an older gay couple in the wake of 9/11.
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Did Media Criticism Force Megyn Kelly to Go Harder on Alex Jones?
Following a media firestorm, NBC’s interview with a conspiracy theorist was heavily edited. Though some commentators praised the segment, few ended up watching.
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The Future of Disaster Relief Isn’t the Red Cross
Team Rubicon breaks rules to put veterans to work and assist people in need. Is this the facelift the aid industry needs?
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories by Jonathan Alter, T. Kira Madden, Ijeoma Oluo, Lauren Alwan, and Rich Schapiro
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Uncategorized
These Are the Locals Who Get The Story of Charlottesville Right
The historians, activists, reporters, and columnists who tell the complicated and ever-changing story of their own community.
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The Story of My Leg
How military technology saved the veteran of a different kind of war—a young man who faced a leg amputation after years of complications from spina bifida.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story, Uncategorized
The Month of Giving Dangerously
Elizabeth Greenwood decides to give everything: time, money, praise, forgiveness. But when does generosity become a mania for giving?
Posted inArts & Culture, Quotes
Dwayne Johnson Is Everything Our President Isn’t
He works out twice a day, he remembers everyone he meets, he hopes you’re sleeping soundly and doing great!
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Chronicling Mexico City Nights: The Grave Shift’s Violence
“When you work the night shift for too long, the murders start to link up with one another, blending cause and effect in a centrifugal force that gnaws away at the city. The veteran reporters start to see this; the man gunned down one night is related to an ongoing gang dispute, which originates in […]
