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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Charlotte Bailey, Hanif Abdurraqib, Taylar Dawn Stagnar, Patrick Madden, and Kevin Chroust.
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Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
“The U.S. Forest Service has fought decades of efforts to better protect its crews — sending them into smoke without masks or warnings about the risks.”
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Finding Jordan Neely
“He had places he belonged and people looking out for him. How did he end up dying, alone, at the hands of a stranger?”
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The Return of the Night Sky
“Artificial light is spreading faster than scientists once thought, reshaping ecosystems and human health. Now activists, designers, and city officials around the world are beginning to push back.”
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Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a “Gold Mine”
“How a scandal-plagued health care giant profits off a failing child welfare system.”
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Anatomy of an Extinction
“How climate disasters, human sprawl—and now Trump—are coming for America’s largest salamander.”
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The Unabomber’s Brother Turned Him In. Then Spent 27 Years Trying to Win Him Back.
“Ted Kaczynski, whose anti-tech rants are finding a new generation of readers, shunned the brother who called the F.B.I. in an effort to halt his campaign of violence.”
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Fentanyl: The Portrait of a Mass Murderer
“A cheap, white powder—50 times more powerful than heroin—which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere.”
