“With the world’s focus on Gaza, settlers have used wartime chaos as cover for violence and dispossession.”
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Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we recommend stories from Sophia Panych, Brian Payton, Jeannette Cooperman, Joshua Hunt, and Sophie Elmhirst.
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‘Between the Hammer and the Anvil’
“The story behind the New York Times October 7 exposé.”
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‘What Can I Even Say Without Having to Go to Jail?’
“The end of Roe has hamstrung advocates for pregnant victims of domestic and sexual violence.”
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The Last Stand of the Call-Centre Worker
“AI is poised to eliminate customer-service agents. We’ll miss them when they’re gone.”
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The Black Women of Gee’s Bend Work Hard and Easy
“The wonder world of quilt-making.”
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What Really Happened to Baby Christina?
“Twenty-six years ago, Barton McNeil called 911 to report that his three-year-old daughter had died in the night. It was the worst thing that could ever happen to any parent. Then a new nightmare began.”
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Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II
“Inside the search for a plane shot down over the Pacific—and the new effort to bring its fallen heroes home.”
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An American Education: Notes from UATX
“Inside the ‘Forbidden Courses’ at the billionaire-backed University of Austin, the campus of the ‘anti woke’ commentariat.”
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The Women at the Cutting Edge of Butchery
Butcher shops have been struggling to survive. But now women are picking up the knife.