“One year ago, before the school shooting in Uvalde, Kimberly Mata-Rubio had never been on a plane or given a public speech or scolded a U.S. senator right there in his office. A year in the life of a grieving mother.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Stories on the color orange, the data center rush, a local hero, the AI labor takeover, and a boy dinner subreddit.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Shadowy Business of International Education
“Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Slavery Reparations Are Coming
“A historic global movement gains power in Barbados.”
Posted inQuestionnaire
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jasper Craven
He wrote the book on how the military shapes masculine identity. He’ll also tell you about Disney adults, Pharaoh Sanders, and his favorite spot for a burger and negroni.
Posted inFeature
Uncanny Testimony
As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Escaping China with a Spoon and a Rusty Nail
“I never imagined that I would stay there for three years and eight months, from the ages of 16 to 19.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Ones We Sent Away
“It is extraordinary what we hide from ourselves—and even more extraordinary that we once hid her, my mother’s sister, and so many like her from everyone.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Listen
“A story about what happens when the people and institutions that are supposed to protect, fail.”
Posted inNonfiction, The Atavist Magazine
‘Stay Away From Miller’
A pioneering humanities program shaped a generation of students and brought acclaim to a public high school in Los Angeles. But beneath the excellence lurked a culture of abuse.
