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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.”
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How to Give Away a Fortune
“An Austrian heiress recruited fifty people from all walks of life to redistribute twenty-five million euros—if they could agree on how to spend it.”
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.
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The Safest Place
“In five years Dante McFallo went from White House honoree to dying in a hail of bullets on New Year’s Day.”
Posted inCuration
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s edition highlights stories by Elissa Nadworny and Claire Harbage, Thomas Lake, Jeff Sharlet, Jasmine Attia, and Brett Martin.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Slavery Reparations Are Coming
“A historic global movement gains power in Barbados.”
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.”
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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 inTop 5
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.
