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Michael Hobbes

Sad child in isolation at home
Posted inNonfiction

Cabin Fever: A Reading List for the Perpetually Isolated

by Kara Devlin May 18, 2022October 19, 2022

How the pandemic made us confront what it means to be alone.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 30, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Hannah Dreier, Doug Bock Clark, Samanth Subramanian, Michael Hobbes, Jonathan Cohn, Kate Sheppard, Alex Kaufman, Delphine D’Amora, Chris D’Angelo, and Emily Peck, and Kris Willcox and Michelle Ruiz.

Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts, Reading List

Less Work, More Friends, No Consequences

by Longreads October 18, 2019October 19, 2022

Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.

Posted inHighlight, Quotes, Science & Nature

We’re Fat, Not Stupid

by michelleweber September 26, 2018October 19, 2022

Oh, did you think we didn’t realize that we’re fat? We’re all set, thanks, because the world never lets us forget it.

Four Nudes by Jules Pascin
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 21, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Bruenig, Michael Hobbes, Jesse Barron, Matthew Walsh, and Alan Siegel.

Close up of mixed race woman's pregnant stomach
Posted inTop 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads December 15, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne and Nina Martin, Michael Hobbes, Rebecca Traister, Naima Coster, and Kristen Roupenian.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads March 3, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories by Elizabeth Weil, Michael Hobbes, J. Oliver Conroy, Bob Shacochis, and Ben Schreckinger.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Why Corporations Produce Clothes at Unsafe Factories Even When They Ban Suppliers From Using Them

by mikedang July 17, 2015October 19, 2022

Michael Hobbes has an eye-opening story in Highline, The Huffington Post’s features and investigations vertical, about why it’s impossible to eliminate sweatshops through boycotting and shopping ethically alone.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Why One ‘Big Idea’ Won’t Save the World

by mikedang November 21, 2014October 19, 2022

In the late ’90s, an MIT economics professor named Michael Kremer wanted to find out if school kids in Kenya were better served by being given free textbooks or medicine that would eradicate stomach worms.

Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews

How to Write About Tax Havens and the Super-Rich: An Interview with Nicholas Shaxson

by Longreads February 12, 2014October 19, 2022

Last year Shaxson published a Vanity Fair article, “A Tale of Two Londons,” that described the residents of one of London’s most exclusive addresses—One Hyde Park—and the accounting acrobatics they had performed to get there.

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