Twenty years after Marines fatally shot an innocent 18-year old man in West Texas, the War on Drugs and militarization of the US-Mexico border has left many local people feeling less safe.
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A Resolute 2017: A Reading List
In 2016, I published my New Year’s resolutions on Longreads. As 2017 dawns, I thought I’d check in with my old self, dust off 2016’s goals and set some new intentions.
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A Resolute 2017: A Reading List
In 2016, I published my New Year’s resolutions on Longreads. As 2017 dawns, I thought I’d check in with my old self, dust off 2016’s goals and set some new intentions.
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Longreads Best of 2016: Crime Reporting
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in crime reporting.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
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The Strange Plight of YouTube’s ‘Middle Class’
Gaby Dunn on the bleak economics of internet fame.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring Harper’s, St. Louis Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Fusion.
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A Private Prison System for Immigrants
“You build a prison, and then you’ve got to find someone to put in them,” said Texas state Sen. John Whitmire, who has seen five of the 13 Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) prisons built in his state. “So they widen the net and find additional undocumented folks to fill them up.” Most of the roughly […]
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Can Technology Heal a Broken Heart?
After her breakup, Kristen V. Brown documented her experimentation with different dating apps at Fusion.
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How Testosterone Is Helping Power a New Medical Model in America
The emerging popularity of testosterone has opened up whole new business models for entrepreneurial doctors. Chains of shops that provide the hormone have exploded all over the United States, especially across the South. How many millions more men might be willing to try testosterone if it was easy to acquire, and a clinic happened to […]