The elusive bear is a thing of fascination, and writers have a lot to say about them.
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How the School Reopening Debate Is Tearing One of America’s Most Elite Suburbs Apart
Noreen Malone recounts the very public and heated debate around school reopening between a teachers union and wealthy, liberal parents in a Boston suburb.
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A Fond Farewell to a Friend: the Arecibo Telescope
“Exploring the cosmos is a way for us to know ourselves. Each time we look up, in some way we are making contact with each other, with our past, present, and future.”
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“Great,” she says resignedly. “What I’ll always be known for is writing this poem about how bad things are, and maybe they could be better, but they’re bad.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Nathaniel Penn, Len Necefer, Aymann Ismail, and Michael Venutolo-Mantovani.
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The Power and Business of Hip-Hop: A Reading List on an American Art Form
Stories of hip-hop’s genius, influence, struggle, and endurance.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from James Hamblin, Josina Guess, Edward Carey, Paraic O’Donnell, and Ruth Graham.
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Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement
American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.
Posted inCrime, Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Welcome to the Military-Educational Complex
The way schools choose to redesign themselves to protect students from shootings will determine how schools look, and how well students can learn in them, for decades to come.
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Editor’s Roundtable: Escape the Podcast
Longreads editors discuss stories in Slate, The Cut, and The Goods by Vox.