“There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool.”
Cosmopolitan
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What’s the Price of a Childhood Turned Into Content?
“In the unregulated world of vloggers, children are, for the most part, not entitled to a single cent they help earn. We spoke to creators—and a former kid influencer—to understand how this unusual family business actually works.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we have stories from Christopher Johnston and Erin Quinlan, Dan McQuade, Crystal Wilkinson, Simon Akam, and Nicholson Baker.
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The Venture
“How two single moms escaped an alleged sex-trafficking ring and ultimately saved each other.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s top stories by Elizabeth Whitman, David Grann, Jack Stilgoe, Gloria Liu, and Tony Rehagen.
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What Happened to the Women Prisoners at Hickman’s Farms
“During the pandemic, in an unheard-of experiment, incarcerated women in Arizona were moved to a prison camp on a multimillion-dollar private farm, where hazardous, meagerly paid work changed their lives forever.”
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The Unlikely Connection Between Wellness Influencers and the Pro-Trump Rioters
A closer look into the “millennial wellness community’s embrace of a radical, nonsensical, easily debunked QAnon conspiracy theory.”