“To Hensel, one of the big things about marking 10 years, is making it 10 years.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine Staff, Melissa del Bosque, Nitasha Tiku, Sarah Gilman, and Tift Merritt.
Big Pharma Has No Comment, But Would Still Like All Your Tax Dollars
From 2008 to 2016, the amount that state Medicaid programs spend on prescription drugs almost doubled. Why?
Why Were We All So Upset About Jason Bateman?
Never underestimate the insidious, destructive power of gaslighting, especially public gaslighting.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Pamela Colloff, Amanda Fortini, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Ira Glass, and Linda Holmes.
How ProPublica and NPR Changed the Narrative About Maternity Care in America
Reporters Nina Martin and Renee Montagne go behind the scenes of their multi-part series on women who die in childbirth.
Four Dead in Ohio
In an excerpt from his 2005 book, Philip Caputo recalls reporting on the Kent State shootings for the Chicago Tribune.
The Kent State Shootings, 35 Years Later
On the 47th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, NPR has this excerpt of 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings, former Chicago Tribune reporter Philip Caputo’s 2005 book about covering the massacre, in which members of the Ohio National Guard shot and killed unarmed students who were protesting the Vietnam War.
‘No One Should be Doomed to Just One Story’: An ‘S-Town’ Roundtable
How we feel about a person’s privacy seems to correlate with how much control they have in the decision to open up.
Leave Them Alone! A Reading List On Celebrity and Privacy
Why do we feel like we own celebrities—not just their art or their products, but their images and their personal lives?