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Trump administration

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Reading List

1000 Days of Trump

by Catherine Cusick October 17, 2019October 19, 2022

Where do we start? How long do you have?

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Africans Who Suffer in a Deportation Purgatory

by Aaron Gilbreath September 4, 2018October 19, 2022

Under the Trump administration, African immigrants are experiencing increasing deportations, though these deportees receive less media attention than deportees from Mexico and Central America.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Politics and Prose

by Marie Myung-Ok Lee May 18, 2018October 19, 2022

Marie Myung-Ok Lee finds herself conflicted about attending a controversial author’s reading and wonders: what does “speaking up” actually mean?

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Politics and Prose

by Marie Myung-Ok Lee May 18, 2018October 19, 2022

Marie Myung-Ok Lee finds herself conflicted about attending a controversial author’s reading and wonders: what does “speaking up” actually mean?

Posted inEditor's Pick

My Own Bad Story: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero Out of Me

by Sari Botton April 5, 2018October 19, 2022

In an essay from his new collection: Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country, Dear Sugars co-host Steve Almond considers his beginnings in journalism through the lens of the “bad stories” he believes delivered our country to the Trump era. Accompanied by a Longreads Podcast interview with Essays Editor Sari Botton.

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