“On May 22, a 7-year-old reached the summit of El Capitan. Why are so many climbers upset about it?”
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Online Trolls Harassed Her Six-Year-Old. That Was Only the Beginning.
“How a group of sports fans at the University of Iowa sparked a clash involving a basketball star, a T-shirt company, and a reporter from halfway across the country.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
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Consider the Sister
“Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle.”
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I Want to Live Like Costco People
“Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco.”
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All My Dad’s Sons
“At a very young age, I learned a lot about how life can go wrong. It put things into perspective, even if that perspective was a little warped.”
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‘It’s Super Weird, Super Odd, Super Rare’: Meet The Twins Who Have Different Dads
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‘It’s super weird, super odd, super rare’: meet the twins who have different dads
When DNA test results shattered everything Lavinia and Michelle thought they knew about their family history, they also revealed something never before documented in the UK.”
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“You Are Always Just a Kiss Away From Me My Beautiful Boy.”
“Their family members vanished near Mass. Ave. They won’t stop searching.”