The Antidote

The heroin epidemic raging across the country has hit the middle-class neighborhoods of Staten Island particularly hard. A drug called naloxone has the power to revive overdose victims, but is it enough to combat the community's opioid crisis?

Author: Ian Frazier
Published: Sept. 8, 2014
Length: 30 minutes (7743 words)
Children at Risk

A two-part investigation into unregulated day care in Virginia.

Part II:"After a Child's Death, Parents Grapple With Second Guesses"

Published: Aug. 31, 2014
Length: 39 minutes (9846 words)
Killer Mike's Ghetto Gospel

How an Atlanta rapper’s “ghetto gospel” is changing his community, and what the odyssey of Killer Mike says about race and music in the American South.

Author: Chuck Reece
Published: March 25, 2014
Length: 25 minutes (6421 words)
What Your 1st-Grade Life Says About the Rest of It
Lessons from a groundbreaking Johns Hopkins study of children in Baltimore: Researchers followed them through their lives and found that different factors (like summers off from school) contributed to heightened disadvantages facing lower-income children without a tradition of college attendance in their families.
Author: Emily Badger
Published: Aug. 31, 2014
Length: 10 minutes (2694 words)
The Rising
Colorado residents recount surviving one of the worst natural disasters in Colorado history.
Published: Aug. 31, 2014
Length: 24 minutes (6189 words)
Stories From Writers From the National Book Festival: A Reading List
"We went to the National Book Festival for different things, but also the same thing: books and our love of them. Here are four essays and excerpts written by the authors I was lucky enough to see."
Author: Emily Perper
Source: Longreads
Published: Aug. 31, 2014
Can Jill Soloway Do Justice to the Trans Movement?

Taffy Brodesser-Akner profiles Jill Soloway, whose new show “Transparent” centers around a family whose patriarch comes out as transgender. Soloway strives to create a truly inclusive environment on her set, complete with gender-neutral bathrooms and a “transfirmative action program,” which favors the hiring of transgender candidates over nontransgender ones.

Published: Aug. 28, 2014
Length: 10 minutes (2722 words)
Jerry Football
He's one of the most infamous owners in professional sports, in need of one more Super Bowl. The complete story of Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys.
Source: ESPN
Published: Aug. 29, 2014
Length: 42 minutes (10638 words)
The Man Without a Mask
How the drag queen Cassandro—known as Saúl Armendáriz outside the ring—became a lucha libre star.
Published: Sept. 1, 2014
Length: 35 minutes (8948 words)
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our story picks of the week, featuring Indianapolis Monthly, SB Nation, Texas Monthly, Matter and ESPN.
Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Aug. 29, 2014
How "Empire Records" Became The Unlikely Film Of A Generation
Source: BuzzFeed
Length: 25 minutes (6445 words)
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@kyliesparks 17 hours, 14 minutes ago
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25 underrated books on persuasion, influence and understanding human behavior
Gregory Ciotti is the marketing director at Help Scout. This post originally appeared on the Helpscout blog. Reading good books remains the supreme “life hack”—knowledge…
Published: Aug. 26, 2014
Length: 10 minutes (2553 words)
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@KasugayaHaruto 20 hours, 53 minutes ago
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An Inside Look at Anonymous, the Radical Hacking Collective
Anyone can join Anonymous simply by claiming affiliation. An anthropologist says that participants “remain subordinate to a focus on the epic win—and, especially, the lulz.”…
Published: Sept. 8, 2014
Length: 35 minutes (8832 words)
Submitted by:
@NewYorker 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
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David Sedaris on the Dangerous Business of Naming a Cat
-David Sedaris, in a 2010 Vulture interview with Aileen Gallagher. Read the interview Photo: ncbrian, Flickr
Published: Sept. 1, 2014
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@longreads 21 hours, 46 minutes ago
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David Foster Wallace on the Costs of Becoming a Professional Tennis Player
-From David Foster Wallace’s “The String Theory,” published in Esquire in July 1996. Read the story Photo:
Published: Aug. 31, 2014
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‘Must Be Hard to Live on That': A Labor Day Reading List
According the the U.S. Department of Labor, the first Labor Day was celebrated in 1882 in New York City, and is now “dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It…
Author: Mike Dang
Published: Sept. 1, 2014
Length: 1 minutes (288 words)
Submitted by:
@longreads 1 day ago
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Close Your Heart
Two young boys run to protect themselves in Bangui on Dec. 25, 2013. Heavy arms fire triggered panic in the Central African capital. Photo by Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images Even by the standards of…
Author: James Verini
Length: 40 minutes (10110 words)
Submitted by:
@etaylor524 4 hours, 38 minutes ago
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Battle Wages for California’s Groundwater Rights
By Erica Gies, Ensia Grapevines march across wires strung along rolling hills, their little trunks improbably supporting heavy black fruit. Cindy Steinbeck’s family has been farming this land…
Published: Aug. 30, 2014
Length: 12 minutes (3233 words)
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@DrEmilySKlein 2 days, 3 hours ago
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Atlantic City: How to save the Boardwalk Empire
Bloomberg News As more casinos close, MarketWatch explores what life after gambling could look like in America's Playground. Nearly 30% of Atlantic City's population lives in poverty. Stretches of…
Author: Ben Eisen
Length: 20 minutes (5123 words)
Submitted by:
@brianaguilar 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
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Killer Mike's Ghetto Gospel
That Killer Mike can pull this off, night after night, all over the world, is at least in part a product of his raising in Adamsville with his grandparents, Bettie Clonts and Willie Burke Sherwood,…
Length: 2 minutes (733 words)
Submitted by:
@longreads 1 day, 1 hour ago
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