How The Go-Go’s emerged from the Los Angeles punk scene in the late ’70s to become the first and only female band to have a number one album in Beauty and the Beat.
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‘Everyone Benefits from a Frozen Arctic’
“The world should not, cannot, go back to business as usual without a clearer understanding and consciousness of how we live.”
The Digital Security Threat Inside Jameson Rich’s Body
“It’s a feeling instead of living as a guinea pig for an opaque set of private interests, and a feeling that I can’t trust an industry that would ever put unsecure devices inside patients in the first place.”
David Lynch Was Here
A dispatch from the real Twin Peaks, where fans of the director flocked after his death.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Josefa Velasquez, Wufei Yu, Tom Foster, Tim Requarth, and Ellen Ruppel Shell.
Longreads Best of 2019: Business Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business writing.
Female Founders Under Fire
“Are women in the startup world being unfairly targeted?”
‘Social Media Managers Are First Responders’
“They’re on the front lines of a relentless and overwhelming news cycle that is pushing them to the edge.”
Signs of Ghosts
What do we do when there are whole cities full of ghosts, each one with their own unique story to tell, each one with something left undone?

