This week, we’re sharing stories from Pamela Colloff, Amanda Fortini, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Ira Glass, and Linda Holmes.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes, Technology
You Are What Your Fingerprint Says You Are
As passports give way to fingerprinting and retinal scans, our bodies themselves become tools to limit our free movement.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2013: My Favorite Stories About Taxes (and Twist-Ties)
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a writer and an editor. Taxes aren’t boring—they’re just supremely difficult to write about in a compelling way. These three stories stand out because they illustrate the far-reaching consequences of different countries’ tax policies through a few very influential people: 1. “Marty Sullivan figured out how the world’s biggest companies avoided […]