Sarah Jeong has spent the past several months covering Trump’s travel ban… while officially becoming an American citizen.
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Posted inCurrent Events, Longreads News
Garrett Graff Joins Longreads to Cover Border Patrol and Government Policy
Graff will cover border security and immigration, federal law enforcement, and the mechanics of how government works.
Posted inReading List, Uncategorized
This Land Should Be Your Land: A National Parks Reading List
Underneath the beautiful surface of federal lands are stories of danger, harassment, and billionaire privilege.
Posted inCurrent Events, Reading List, Story
The Best Longreads From Trump’s First 100 Days
After an exhausting first few weeks, the media dug in for the long fight ahead.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Where Were You the First Time You Realized the Government Wasn’t Always On the Ball?
The 1969 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara galvanized environmental activism, and Pacific Standard’s oral history is a great read.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
‘The Stakes May Be the Survival of Civilization’
The first report from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966 was a passionate defense of the government’s role in the arts.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
LOL, JFK: The Hot Mess That Is U.S. Immigration Law
Immigration lawyer Matt Cameron writes in The Baffler, laying bare the inequities, misconceptions, and plain messiness that characterize U.S. immigration law.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Strangers in a Cruel Land
The wretched state of U.S. immigration enforcement, becoming more wretched by the day.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Ten Letters A Day: To Obama With Love, and Hate, and Desperation
Jeanne Marie Laskas goes behind the scenes in the White House mailroom where “50 staff members, 36 interns, and a rotating roster of 300 volunteers” read and processed the 10,000 emails and letters President Barack Obama received each day during his eight-year presidency.
Posted inEditor's Pick
To Obama With Love, and Hate, and Desperation
Jeanne Marie Laskas goes behind the scenes in the Whitehouse mailroom where it took “50 staff members, 36 interns, and a rotating roster of 300 volunteers” to read and process the 10,000 messages and letters President Barack Obama received each day during his eight-year presidency. Of the 10,000 pieces of correspondence, staffers were charged with […]