This week, we’re sharing stories from Alex Skopic, David Dayen, Chabeli Carrazana, Devin Kelly, and Carla Ciccone.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Max Blau, Venessa Wong, Hope Wabuke, David Dayen, and Mark Sundeen.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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Longreads Best of 2013 Postscript: Monica Potts on the Homeless Families of 'The Weeklies'
The Weeklies Monica Potts | The American Prospect | March 2013 | 29 minutes (7,360 words) Monica Potts is a senior writer for The American Prospect. I did the reporting for ‘The Weeklies,’ about homeless families living in a suburban hotel outside of Denver, Colorado, a year ago. I lived with in the Ramada Inn […]
Longreads Guest Pick: Christine Kim on 'What's Killing Poor White Women?'
Christine Kim is a civil rights advocate studying at Duke University School of Law. My favorite longread of the week is ‘What’s Killing Poor White Women,’ by Monica Potts, in The American Prospect. Health care is on the national stage. From Obamacare to health care costs to new state-run health exchanges, it seems that each […]
Elizabeth Warren has energized Democrats in Massachusetts during her 2012 Senate race against Republican incumbent Scott Brown, but has also faced many difficulties as a first-time candidate. The race remains very close: Lydon brought up an anecdote he’d heard: Warren, while she served on the bankruptcy panel during Clinton’s presidency, had known the first lady, […]
"My So-Called Ex-Gay Life."
What it was like for a teenager to go through “ex-gay” therapy—and how the movements associated with such practices have fallen apart: After our initial meeting, I spoke with Nicolosi weekly by phone for more than three years, from the time I was 14 until I graduated high school. Like a rabbi instructing his student […]
"My So-Called Ex-Gay Life."
What it was like for a teenager to go through “ex-gay” therapy—and how the movements associated with such practices have fallen apart: After our initial meeting, I spoke with Nicolosi weekly by phone for more than three years, from the time I was 14 until I graduated high school. Like a rabbi instructing his student […]