The Sexist Trials of Female Attorneys By Katie Kosma Highlight Women trial lawyers share their experiences of destructive sexism in the courtroom.
To Reflect, To Love, and To Protest: A Pride Month Reading List By Em Perper Reading List A roundup of longreads to celebrate Pride Month.
Seeing the Modern World In the Disposable Plastic Straw By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How our planet came to be filled with more disposable plastic straws than most of us will ever need.
Frailty, Thy Name Is Immigration Control By Katie Kosma Highlight Quoting Shakespeare isn’t new, but using it in court to fight Trump’s immigration control is.
Can the Jaguars’ Unique Biology Help It Survive On Our Over-Populated Planet? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight By avoiding confrontations with humans, and using water and edge-lands, jaguars might be ideally suited to surviving the modern world.
Endurance: It’s All in Your Head, Apparently By Krista Stevens Highlight “But what if extreme athletes are the worst sources of wisdom, and that is precisely what makes them fascinating?”
I Have a Half Mind to Donate My Brain to Science By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Dara Bramson’s grandmother decided to donate her brain to science, so Bramson visited the donation center to learn how iot all works.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lili Loofbourow, Rachel Monroe, Benjamin Weiser, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and Megan Greenwell.
Translation is Messy, Which is Why Google Translate Will Never Be Very Good at It By Ben Huberman Highlight The popular online tool is great at rapid decoding. Extracting meaning? Not so much.
Why Do Millennials Love Horoscopes? (Hint: It’s Not Only Because They’re Free) By Ben Huberman Highlight A new audience finds comfort and meme-ready material in an old pseudoscience.
Second Life: A World that, for Some, Allows Full Participation By Krista Stevens Highlight Second Life offers both escapism and a refuge for its hard-core digital denizens.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Luke O’Brien, Jen Gann, Tom Lamont, Norimitsu Onishi, and Sam Knight.
How We Write About the Nazis Next Door By Catherine Cusick Highlight The Nazi next door is still a Nazi.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Anand Gopal and Azmat Khan, Claire Dederer, Dale Maharidge, Leslie Jamison, and Nina Coomes.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ronan Farrow, Diana Nyad, Rachel Monroe, Ross Andersen, and Teresa Mathew.
Another Year, Another Fraternity Hazing Death By Michelle Weber Highlight For 12 hours, Tim Piazza fought for his life as his frat brothers did nothing to help.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from David Dobbs, Rachel Aviv, Max Read, Holly George-Warren, and Bianca Bosker.
The Vegan Mayo that Dare Not Speak its Name By Ben Huberman Highlight Why is a vegan-food startup avoiding the term “vegan”?
Mothering Is Not the Enemy of Creative Work By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Journalist Erika Hayasaki uses science to show how motherhood can improve creativity.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Takes on the Trump Presidency By Danielle Jackson Commentary In an excerpt from his upcoming book on the Obama administration, Coates constructs an incisive look at Donald Trump’s political ascent.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ta-Nehisi Coates; Nikole Hannah-Jones; Mark Collette, David Hunn, and Mike Hixenbaugh; Natalie Kitroeff and Victoria Kim; and Robert Minto.
Working Class Jilts America’s Sweetheart Deal By Catherine Cusick Highlight The working class is walking away from America’s favorite business transaction — traditional marriage — as good jobs disappear.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Bee Wilson, Seyward Darby, Wil S. Hylton, Greg Milner, and Annie Dillard.
The Sun Was Going and the World Was Wrong By Sari Botton Highlight Annie Dillard describes her experience of the 1979 solar eclipse, the last one visible in the United States until this year.
Swabbing Filthy Surfaces for Tomorrow’s Cures By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary As the world faces a global health catastrophe from drug-resistant microbes, one scientists is searching the natural world for the antibiotics of the future.
The Flavor of Childhood: Sweet Medicine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.
Deporting Billions of Tax Dollars, Farm Work, Good People, and Affordable Food Right Out of America By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight TheHudson Valley offers a glimpse of the ways deportations will effect America’s farm economy and food system.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne, Nina Martin, Alex Tizon, Mary Mann, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, and Andy Newman.
Not Really A Distant Aunt: My Family’s Slave By Krista Stevens Highlight “Once, when I was sick for a long time and too weak to eat, she chewed my food for me and put the small pieces in my mouth to swallow.”
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