“Why Elon Musk needs Dungeons & Dragons to be racist.”
The Atlantic
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are featuring stories from Robert Sanchez, Amos Barshad, Mark Dent, Zoya Teirstein, and Caity Weaver.
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You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor
“Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.”
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Inside the Very Expensive, Extremely Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks
“Roller coasters are bumping against the limits of physics and the human body to keep their riders entertained.”
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Life Before Katrina—And After It
“The storm destroyed the home where I grew up, and changed New Orleans forever.”
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That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
“Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called ‘sludge.'”
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The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone
“‘Who’s calling?’ the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.”
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The World’s Hardest Bluffing Game
“Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories from Archie Bland, Elizabeth Bruenig, Anat Rubin, Dexter Thomas, and Elena Gosalvez Blanco.