Editor’s Roundtable: Democracy Needs Healing Crystals By Longreads Commentary Longreads editors discuss stories in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Politico.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Prachi Gupta, Tess McClure, Anna Wiener, Ismail Muhammad, and Alex McLevy.
Your Healing Crystals Are Part of the Capitalist Exploitation Machine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Healing crystals move from poor villages to first world consumers along a trail of death, ecological destruction, and capitalistic concentration of wealth.
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 Gabriel Thompson, Tim Murphy, Deborah Netburn, Tove Danovich, and Sirin Kale.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Anna Merlan, Sara Tatyana Bernstein, Connie Pertuz-Meza, and Emma Beddington.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Irin Carmon, Joe Bernstein, Robert Sanchez, Amanda Feinman, and Lois Beckett.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Molly Redden, Sarah Schweitzer, Andrew Dickson, Namwali Serpell, and Lukas Hermsmeier.
How the Guardian Went Digital By Longreads Feature Remaking itself from a little leftie newspaper to a powerhouse of internet journalism required experimentation, transparency, and embracing uncertainty.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Peter DeMarco, Tiffany Kary and Christopher Cannon, Rebecca Solnit, Will Bostwick, and Rosecrans Baldwin.
How the U.S. Systematically Puts Black Farmers Out of Business By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How America stacks the deck against black farmers.
A Confederacy of (Dangerous) Dunces By Sari Botton Highlight Rebecca Solnit argues that the American Confederacy lives on, with Donald Trump at the helm.
How Offshore Banking Destroyed Everything By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight This is the story of how a handfull of mega-rich ended up hoarding most of the world’s wealth.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Steve Stecklow, Lynn Johnson, Steven Hyden, Morgan Jerkins, and Chris McGreal.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Aaron Hamburger, William Finnegan, Cecilie Maria Kallestrup and Katrine Jo Anderson, Hannah Jane Parkinson, and Amy Westervelt.
Waiting for Mental Health Care By Catherine Cusick Highlight Patients do ask for help with their mental health. And then they wait.
Arundhati Roy: “Fiction is a Universe” By Michelle Weber Highlight Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy is the embodiment of concept that the personal is political, even (especially?) in her fiction.
How Amazon Exploits Chinese Workers to Crank Out Its Products By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, exploits Chinese workers to manufacture Kindles and smart speakers.
England Is a Giant Russian Money Washing Machine By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Russian money is parked in English real estate and other assets, but is it too late to purge its influence on Britain?
A Pyramid Scheme for the Social Media Generation By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A new breed of charlatan posts images of their fake opulent lifestyles on Instagram to lure followers into investing in sketchy financial products.
Welcome to the New Transnational Paradigm By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The decline of national political authority requires a new transnational political system. First we have to stop denying the problem.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Presser, Kathleen McGrory, Bryan Curtis, Anna Merlan, and Amalia Illgner.
To Be a Lexicographer Is to Surrender to Folly By Ben Huberman Highlight On the never-ending, unattainable quest to create the perfect English dictionary.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jason Fagone, Joe Zadeh, Victoria Myers, Andrew Dickson, and Steve Almond.
To Live and Die in Utopian New Zealand By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How the super rich like Peter Thiel are buying land in New Zealand to survive the apocalypse.
The Only Downside to Lower Infant-Mortality Rates? All Those Baby Books By Ben Huberman Highlight When you don’t need to worry about the big things, you can start obsessing over the small ones.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Emily Chang, Kiera Feldman, Motoko Rich, David J. Unger, and Nicole Chung.
The Digital Age Won’t Kill Paper By Ben Huberman Highlight Just like handwriting survived long after the introduction of print, paper is still very much part of our internet-era economy.
Who Benefits from Homeless Relocation Programs? By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Many American cities offer the homeless free bus tickets to move somewhere, but do these relocation programs do vunerable populations more harm than good?
Treating Drug Epidemics Requires More Than Changes in Law By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How Portugal combats its drug epidemic with decriminalization, social services, and new ways of thinking.
