Brazil’s Roads to Destruction By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Every year, vehicles on Brazil’s ever-expending road network hit over 400 million Brazilian animals, causing series declines in some species — and Brazil isn’t the only country expanding its infrastructure.
The Soundtrack to Hell By Krista Stevens Highlight “Not only was the whine agitating—EHHNNNNNNNN—but its constant drone was like a cruel mnemonic for everything that bothered him.”
Less Work, More Friends, No Consequences By Longreads Reading List Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.
Working To Live Often Means Giving Up Your Life By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight You can’t have work-life balance when work dictates the balance.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Sandra Sidi, Lena Solow, Aubrey Hirsch, Noelle Mateer, and Amanda Hess.
Editor’s Roundtable: Antidotes to Loneliness (Podcast) By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and a collaboration between Texas Monthly and The Texas Tribune.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Elizabeth Weil, Neena Satija, Dan McDougall, Leslie Jamison, and Amos Barshad.
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.
How To Embrace Professional Decline By Carolyn Wells Highlight As we age we move past our professional peak. What can life offer as we enter this downturn?
The Unstable Business of Higher Education By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Why are so many small American colleges like Newbury closing?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Casey Newton, William Langewiesche, Sarah Miller, Hafizah Geter, and Shannon Keating.
MH370 Five Years Later: Will We Ever Know What Happened? By Krista Stevens Highlight “The idea that a sophisticated machine, with its modern instruments and redundant communications, could simply vanish seems beyond the realm of possibility.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from James Carroll, Cecilia D’Anastasio, Ben Steverman, Eva Holland, and Ian Brown.
To Protect Children from Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church Must Eliminate the Clergy By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One ex-priest shows how the clergy lies at the root of the Catholic Church’s problems.
You May Not Have Needed That Root Canal By Katie Kosma Highlight Dentistry doesn’t adhere to the same research and practice protocols of the medical field. This separation allows for a slew of unnecessary procedures and predatory pricing.
When Your Doctor is Also an Opioid Addict By Krista Stevens Highlight How one doctor beat his addiction to start helping members of his West Virginia community to do the same.
Confessions of a Clinical Therapy Trainee By Krista Stevens Highlight What do you do when it’s your first day on the job and the patient can’t stop crying?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Chloe Cooper Jones, Adam Serwer, Emma Marris, and Mik Awake.
The Lost Boys of #MeToo By Soraya Roberts Feature When we hear “sexual abuse” we think “women and girls.” But Hollywood’s boy actors are suffering in a different way.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Alex French and Maximillian Potter, Wesley Morris, Ruxandra Guidi, Robert Caro, and Mark Abley.
‘Rhyming Was No Longer a Symptom, But a Cure’: From Stroke Survivor to Rap Legend By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight For stroke survivor Sherman Hershfield, rapping and rhyming kept his seizures under control.
Tommy Tomlinson: The Weight I Carry By Krista Stevens Highlight “On top of all that, some of us fight holes in our souls that a boxcar of donuts couldn’t fill.” Tommy Tomlinson shares the physical and emotional costs of weighing 460 pounds.
The Promise of Passive Income from Amazon: Too Good To Be True? By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight Two self-proclaimed “Amazon coaches” say they can train you in their business models so you can make thousands of dollars reselling cheap Chinese products on the world’s largest ecommerce store.
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.
The Minefield of Facebook Support Groups By Krista Stevens Highlight If you’re going on Facebook to join a support group, be wary of trolls and those who want to profit from your misfortune.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Michael J. Mooney, Elisa Gabbert, Nicole Chung, and Ashley Fetters.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Nell Boeschenstein, Hannah Giorgis, David Davis, Chris Randle, and Kelly Conaboy.
The Scientist at the Center of a Heated Scientific Feud By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When one female scientist’s thirty years of research contradicted the established theory of dinosaur extinction, people started calling her a bitch that should be burned at the stake.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from C.J. Chivers, David Ewing Duncan, Steve Silberman, Anna Wiener, and David Marchese.
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