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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
How a Mom Penetrated the Pen to Hack the Warden’s Computer
Rita Strand, age 58, posed as a health inspector and got unrestricted access to South Dakota prison.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Michael Barajas, Evan Ratliff, Andrew Mckirdy, Raffi Khatchadourian, and Agnes Callard.
Posted inNonfiction
Doctors Without Patients: The Eritrean Physicians Stuck in American Licensing Limbo
“What was the whole point of your training if you cannot do something, even in a pandemic?”
Posted inEditor's Pick
This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It’s time we all listened
Mariana Mazzucato, author of The Value of Everything and “one of the most influential economists in the world,” first set out to rewrite a narrative of corporate innovation that omitted the role of the state’s early investments in risk-taking. Now the European Parliament has just approved Mazzucato’s proposal for Horizon Europe, a set of concrete, measurable policies designed to […]
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Technology
What Happens When You Go Offline
The Information Age is also the age of information overload. Here’s what one person learned about the human brain after cleansing himself of screens.
Posted inFeature, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
The Poke Paradox
Where culinary bliss meets environmental peril, and how to solve America’s poke problem.
Best of 2019
The Best of 2019 series is made up of guest-curated collections across food, sports, music, investigative reporting, science & nature, and other categories. Contributing writers and editors to these lists include Deborah Blum, Pamela Colloff, Danielle A. Jackson, Morgan Jerkins, Emily Raboteau, Sam Riches, Helen Rosner, Matthew Salesses, Mayukh Sen, Michael W. Twitty, and more.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Science and Nature
Our top picks in science and nature stories for 2020.
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Home Cooking: A Reading List
“In the following essays, writers interrogate the complicated pasts of place through food, express nostalgia for long-gone homes, and find belonging by sharing meals.”
