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Welcome Nowhere: The Plight of the Rohingya Refugees
Myanmar’s Rohingya people escape systematic discrimination at home only to suffer depredations in search of new homes.
On Becoming a Woman Who Knows Too Much
Through my education I’d become a trusted source of specialized knowledge. But how could I become the kind of leader who is surrounded with people like me?
Raised by Hip-Hop
In hip-hop and skateboarding, one young man finds an outlet for his aggression.
It’s Like This and Like That and Like What?
When the nineties’ heart of whiteness met g-funk, it was the illest — and wackest — of times.
The Bungled Bank Robbery That Ended in a Landmark Legal Ruling
In 1958, John Leo Brady got his lover pregnant and decided to stick up a bank to fund a new life. It ended with a murder, a Supreme Court case, and the formation of the Brady rule.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we’re sharing stories by Evan Osnos, Ashley C. Ford, Michael Grabell, Chris Heath, and Becca Andrews.
Silence is a Lonely Country: A Prayer in Twelve Parts
A poet reflects on finding her words in the face of injustice.
Silence is a Lonely Country: A Prayer in Twelve Parts
A poet reflects on finding her words in the face of injustice.
Haute Cuisine Has a Low Wage Problem
How an army of unpaid apprentices keeps the world’s best restaurants afloat.

