Recommending stories by Francisco Cantú, Tom Bartlett, Jessica Lucas, Jay Miller, and Sadie Dingfelder.
The New Yorker
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Why Immigration Agents Don’t Quit in Protest
“How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel ‘at war with an enemy that does not fight back.’”
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The Year Math Changed Forever
“A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.”
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A Night Living in Penn Station
“For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges.”
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How Jim Morrison Surmounted Tragedy and Skied Down Everest
“The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on.”
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The Doxing of Jane Doe
“The alleged perpetrators in the ‘Cornell Seven’ case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Highlighting stories by Melanie Challenger, Eve Livingston, M.R. O’Connor, Gordon Peake, and Blair Braverman.
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How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness
“By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories from Caitlin Dickerson, Marci Wilding, Tiffany Huang, Nick Paumgarten, and Chabeli Carrazana.
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Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons
“Parenting is a practice. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway.”