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Can a Big Village Full of Tiny Homes Ease Homelessness in Austin?
“One of the nation’s largest experiments in affordable housing to address chronic homelessness is taking shape outside the city limits.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our Top 5 stories of the week from Maurice Chammah, Benoît Morenne, Amanda Gefter, Jane Miller, and Cheryl Katz and our first-ever audience award.
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Too Much Vino and Project Veritas: My Extremely Weird Evening with James O’Keefe
Laura Jedeed vividly brings to life a bizarre evening she spent at James O’Keefe’s book launch. She is left bemused by the spectacle, and no wonder — it’s a wild ride! Fake news. Those two words singlehandedly rescued O’Keefe from obscurity and set him on a path to greatness. By Trump’s metric, Project Veritas’ journalism […]
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The Struggle for Land, Reparations, and Belonging in California
“The state’s approach has shifted from cash payments toward access to landownership. But climate change has something to say.”
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Can Your Stomach Handle a Meal at Alchemist?
“At the Copenhagen restaurant, diners are served raw jellyfish—and freeze-dried lamb brain served in a fake cranium—while videos about climate change swirl on the ceiling. Is it ‘gastronomic opera,’ or sensory overload?”
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Memento Mori
“Surveillance is just one aspect of how a creepy gimmick has come to contend with eternity.”
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Locked In, Priced Out
“The Appeal’s 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600 percent.”
