“At least 442 service members across almost every branch of the armed forces had been conned—by prisoners—out of a total of more than half a million dollars.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Lauren Markham, Ariel Levy, Brooke Jarvis, Audrey Gray, and Chris Dennis.
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Who was Behind the First State-Sponsored Computer Attack? The Russians, Quelle Surprise
“Don’t go screwing with information that belongs to innocent people!”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Lyz Lenz, Molly Young, Hannah Dreier, Maddie Stone, and Richard Cooke.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Editor’s Roundtable: Stories About Stories
Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.
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Longreads Best of 2020: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Melissa Brown, Brendan I. Koerner, Christopher Mathias, and Yiyun Li.
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‘This Wasn’t His First Time’
A kidnapping deemed a hoax, the newbie detective who cracked the case, and the Harvard-trained lawyer whose mental unraveling set the whole story in motion.
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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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Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing
Our top story picks in business writing this year.
