On Course for Certain Disaster By Krista Stevens Highlight “Ten Navy sailors were killed and scores more were injured. It was the Navy’s worst accident at sea in 40 years.” And it was all avoidable.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Pamela Colloff, Jordan Smith, James Ross Gardner, Michelle Dowd, and Jaya Saxena.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Melissa Brown, Brendan I. Koerner, Christopher Mathias, and Yiyun Li.
The Boeing 737 MAX: “Fatally Flawed” By Krista Stevens Highlight Boeing’s failings with the 737 MAX reveal a dangerous deviation from its engineering-first culture that used to put the safety of the flying public before profit.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Allie Conti, Joe Sexton and Nate Schweber, Alexander Chee, Nell Scovell, and Bee Wilson.
The Misidentification of Raheme Malik Perry By Krista Stevens Highlight When a hospice takes a man off life support in a case of mistaken identity, who is responsible?
Meet Michael Gillespie, the Ransomeware Superhero of Normal, Illinois By Krista Stevens Highlight Michael Gillespie has automated a way to decrypt ransomeware, and he gives his code away for free just to help people in need.
Alaska’s Law Enforcement Crisis By Krista Stevens Highlight When troopers finally do arrive, violent offenders just hide until they leave.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Paul Kiel & Justin Elliot, Andy Greenberg, Mary Heglar, Katherine Miller, and Kyle Chayka.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Brett Forrest, Lizzie Presser, Ahmet Altan, Lisa Miller, and James K. Williamson.
Editor’s Roundtable: Stories About Stories By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Presser, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, S. Margot Finn, Darcy Frey, and Logan Hill.
“Set Up For Failure”: How Iran Captured 10 US Sailors at Farsi Island By Krista Stevens Highlight “What unfolded over the next 12 hours transformed a bumbling operation into a historic fiasco.”
Take Two Stem Cell Injections and Don’t Call Me Until After I Cash Your $10,000 Cheque By Krista Stevens Highlight What don’t these stem cell snake-oil salespeople have? Any science to prove their claims or any scruples about preying on the vulnerable.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ijeoma Oluo, Patricia Lockwood, Michael Shaw, Mairead Small Staid, and Adriana Gallardo.
Written On the Body: One Family’s History By Krista Stevens Highlight “We, as family, got so much from their trash. I never wanted to forget that I was the janitor’s kid before I was anything else.”
The Navy Declines to Respond By Michelle Weber Highlight If the U.S. is supposed to have the strongest Navy in the world, we’ve got problems — and it’s our servicepeople that pay the price.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Christian Miller, Megan Rose, and Robert Faturechi; Robin Hemley; David Gauvey Herbert; Ian Parker; and Meghan Daum.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Kavitha Surana and Hannah Dreier, Garrett M. Graff, Dani Shapiro, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and Lauren Hough.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel, Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger, Sean Patrick Cooper, and Priya Krishna.
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later (Or Don’t) By Michelle Weber Highlight Officer Stephen Mader got fired for deciding not to shoot someone, and if that doesn’t say a lot about the problems with police culture in the U.S., I don’t know what to tell you.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Julie K. Brown, Joe Sexton, Zeke Faux and Zachary R. Mider, Bruce Grierson, and Michael Hainey.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Finlay Young, Katie Prout, Molly Crabapple, Sean Flynn, and Harley Rustad.
How MS-13 Targeted Latino Youths for Execution on Long Island By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘Too often, Suffolk detectives acknowledge, police have stereotyped young immigrants as gang members and minimized violence against them as “misdemeanor murder.”’
In Just 40 Hours, You Too Can Be an Expert By Michelle Weber Highlight Pamela Colloff took the same 40-hour course that is the sum total of the training many blood spatter experts claim… and it did not inspire confidence in the reliability of this particular forensic “science.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jennifer Gonnerman, Evan Allen, Britni de la Cretaz, Jen Banbury, and Gordon Edgar.
When Forensic “Science” Is Anything But By Michelle Weber Highlight Despite what “Law & Order: CSI” tells us, blood spatter patterns don’t necessarily hold all the keys to a crime scene.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Pamela Colloff, Amanda Fortini, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Ira Glass, and Linda Holmes.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rahima Nasa, Roxane Gay, Jessica Camille Aguirre, Lucy Grove-Jones, and Jen Doll.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Rahawa Haile; Hannah Dreier; Rukmini Callimachi; Mary Anne Mohanraj, Keah Brown, S. Bear Bergman, Matthew Salesses, and Kiese Laymon; and Molly Fitzpatrick.
