“What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We’re all finding out.”
Trump administration
Posted inEditor's Pick
An Act of Cosmic Sabotage
“How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
“Bring Carol Home”
“ICE snatches rural Missouri mom at immigration check-in.”
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Reading List
1000 Days of Trump
Where do we start? How long do you have?
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Africans Who Suffer in a Deportation Purgatory
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
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
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
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.