The Queering of the Baby Bells By Longreads Feature Highly public pressure campaigns against telephone companies were the crux of early LGBTQ activism.
Leaning In with Alex P. Keaton By Nicole Cyrus Feature Born with serious CEO aspirations, Nicole Cyrus found her role model in a white kid from an ’80s sitcom.
The Martha Stewarting of Powerful Women By Ann Foster Feature How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.
Longreads Best of 2018: Business Writing By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business writing.
Long Live the Oddly Charming Poetry of the Mail-Order Catalog By Ben Huberman Highlight Hammacher Schlemmer, which publishes America’s longest-running catalog, still takes its product descriptions seriously.
We Love Moms, as Long as They Have Good Insurance By Michelle Weber Highlight In the U.S., getting pregnant can be exciting, joyful, and the first step toward a lifetime of debt.
The Dark Side of Amazon’s Job Creation By Mike Dang Highlight Is any new job a good job? A look at Amazon’s warehouse jobs, where workers struggle to keep up.
