How lead contaminated the soil under East Chicago’s black and Latino communities.
The Baffler
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
Tearing the Heart from the Music Industry
Digitization has removed the humanity from the music business, from collaboration to mutual respect.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Quotes, Sports
The NFL Has Pimped Its Players for Too Long
The disturbing parallels between professional football and the business of pimping
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech
Destroying Music, One Playlist at a Time
Spotify’s corporate-branded playlists are not the solution to the music industry’s problems. They’re a new problem.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Rana Dasgupta, Whitney Joiner, Jesse Barron, Kiese Laymon, and David Roth.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
You Can’t Embarrass a Dog, or a Trump
“Does he even know about…Â Let me stop you there. The answer is no.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The President of Blank Sucking Nullity
“It is not quite fair to say that Donald Trump lacks core beliefs, but to the extent that we can take apart these beliefs they amount to Give Donald Trump Your Money and Donald Trump Should Really Be on Television More.”
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Slacklash Is Here. You Should Do Something About It.
Is the app that ate email eating into a whole lot more—like privacy, productivity, and personal time?
Posted inEditor's Pick
Big Bother Is Watching
“Slack tracks and catalogs everything that passes through it, and that is supposed to be a perk. But if the little guy can find anything in the archive, so can his risk-mitigating boss.”
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories by Sam Knight, Rick Perlstein, Ijeoma Oluo, Keziah Weir, and George Saunders.