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Posted inEditor's Pick
Meltdown of the Phantom Snowflakes
“When I fight back, though, when I continue to write about injustice in the face of the bullying campaigns that are daily life for every female activist I have met, precisely when I feel strongest—that’s when I’m told I’m weak. A crybaby. Special snowflake. Whiner… As politics turn darker, these slurs have become weaponized. Something […]
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Unapologetic Women
‘We Have to Resist’: A Conversation with Rebecca Solnit
The difference between hope and optimism, and the dangers of activism without a plan.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2016: Political Analysis
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in political analysis.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
‘No Woman’s Career Is Straight’
Hillary Clinton’s career, and the compromises and concessions she had to make along the way.
Posted inPodcasts, Quotes
Marin Cogan On Political Reporting, Blogging, and Growing As a Journalist
“My first campaign was in 2012, and I did that for GQ, and it was essentially a blog. I was on the trail covering it every single day, multiple times a day. So I was trained pretty narrowly as a political reporter. But I always had this ambition to be a magazine features writer, and […]
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Moment Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ Changed Course
The internal battles and the decisions Jon Stewart made after taking over The Daily Show from Craig Kilborn.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Who’s to Blame for Trump? Media’s Socioeconomic Blind Spots
It wasn’t poor whites who criminalized blackness by way of marijuana laws and the “war on drugs.” Nor was it poor whites who conjured the specter of the black “welfare queen.” These points should not minimize the horrors of racism at the lowest economic rungs of society, but remind us that those horrors reside at […]
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Obama’s Aesthetic of Cool
Charles Pierce, writing in Esquire, on President Obama’s Democratic National Convention Speech and uniquely American brand of “cool.”
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Unattributed: A Reading List on Plagiarism
In the internet age, plagiarizing has become easier to detect—and harder to resist.