Hope may seem to be in short supply these days, but these stories dare to chart a course toward something better.
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Taking Your Butt to a Higher Level
“Working in concert with the perfect breasts, the perfect bottom turns the body into the shape of an S. ‘It’s the classic hourglass figure,’ said Melissa. ‘That’s what you go after.'”
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Lavish Parties, Greedy Pols and Panic Rooms: How the ‘Apple of Pot’ Collapsed
“MedMen was the country’s hottest pot startup—until it flamed out. Its fall has exposed the gap between “green rush” hype and the realities of a troubled industry.”
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A New Leaf: A Post-Legalization Cannabis Reading List
Five stories demonstrating how the green rush nurtured the best and worst that U.S. capitalism had to offer.
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Best of 2023: All of Our Number Five Story Picks
Each story we chose as our number five piece of the week in 2023, all in one place.
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A Startup Just Announced the World’s First Fake-meat “Steaks” Made from Fungi. Are We Ready?
They are: pink, amenable to searing, dense and juicy. They’re not: meat, or vegetables, or even mushrooms. An ambiguous foodstuff creates ambiguous feelings.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing
Our top story picks in business writing this year.
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Longreads Best of 2022: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
All the stories we’ve selected as number one in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
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The Uncertain Future of Your Neighborhood Dry Cleaner
Startups are disrupting New York’s dry-cleaning industry and threatening the welfare of the Korean-Americans who have thrived in the industry since the 1970s. One thing startups can’t provide, though, is quality.
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Great American Wasteland
I am of that bit of earth. So I will not let it go. I show up in the small ways I can, which is talking to people, which is why I tell this to you.
