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Longreads
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The world's best stories, since 2009. Use #longreads to share your favorites. Part of the @Automattic @WordPressdotcom family.
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"Imagine 5 plastic grocery bags stuffed with plastic trash, sitting on every foot of coastline around the world—that would correspond to about 8.8 million tons, her middle-of-the-road estimate of what the ocean gets from us annually" @laurajoparker @NatGeo longreads.com/2018/05/23/dea…
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"I start by thinking, well, this is a completely unrelated thing. There’s no genuine connection, for example, between the @NFL and Rikers Island. And then, the more you dig deep, you start seeing the way everything is connected." #DeLaPava @TobiasCarroll longreads.com/2018/05/16/the…
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“The dead are attached to the living, and those who have lost them are attached to the dead. It’s inevitable that there are ghosts.” twitter.com/longreads/stat…
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The idea that anyone who wants to work should be able to find a job is more supported than you might think, writes @LiviaGershon for @Longreads longreads.com/2018/05/22/why… #PoweredByWordPress pic.twitter.com/mJdiEGopQi
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“A bomb can’t distinguish between master and enemy,” Velu later told us. “It’s brainless and it does brainless work.” @mansi_choksi @TheKimWallFund longreads.com/2018/05/22/a-c…
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"In a single stroke, the government could not only eliminate involuntary unemployment but also alter the private job market. The wages and benefits at guaranteed public jobs would effectively set a floor for private employment." @LiviaGershon longreads.com/2018/05/22/why…
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Such a moving and important read about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands in Japan. Here's the @Longreads excerpt: longreads.com/2017/10/24/the… @dicklp @fsgbooks twitter.com/matthew_komats…
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Along a 25-building stretch of West Oakland, neighbors work to improve their block, connect with each other, and cling to what’s theirs. @G_Thompson1 @sanfranmag longreads.com/2018/05/23/a-c…
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"Talking honestly about hard things in a way kids can understand helps open a door to the empathy that’s part of being a decent human being." @BonnieSchiedel @macleans longreads.com/2018/05/22/in-…
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Y’all, I finally hopped back on the @Longreads train after months of anxiety-fueled self-doubt. I read & wrote about ballet! 💞 Give it a look. longreads.com/2018/05/23/on-…
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"It’s unclear how long it will take for that plastic to completely biodegrade into its constituent molecules. Estimates range from 450 years to never." @laurajoparker @NatGeo longreads.com/2018/05/23/dea…
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Please take the time to read and share this fascinating piece by @mansi_choksi and Kim Wall, about the women who fought with the Tamil Tigers in #SriLanka's brutal civil war. It was the last story Kim filed. @TheKimWallFund twitter.com/Longreads/stat…
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"It was an angry, bitter display, like something out of a late Roth novel. It’s self-serving to say so, but I don’t think his staff was the problem. The industry really was changing." @markkrotov @nplusonemag longreads.com/2018/05/23/pet…
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“The idea—that the government should provide a job for anyone who wants one—is both radical and impressively well-liked. A recent study found that 52 percent of Americans support it, compared with just 29 percent who say they’re opposed.” (via @Longreads) buff.ly/2s0sH4V
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"There were many thousands of words published this past year on the NFL quarterback’s swift transformation into social activism icon." Last year's best sports #longreads, including three on Colin Kaepernick by @bomani_jones, @rembert, and @JohnBranchNYT: longreads.com/2017/12/12/lon…
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"More than the story of how a ship was overcome by a storm, @RachelSlade1’s #IntoTheRagingSea is an allegory for what it means to be a part of the nation’s largely invisible working and middle class." @JoshundaSanders @eccobooks longreads.com/2018/05/23/who…
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I learned so much talking to Rachel Slade about El Faro and reading her incredible book, Into the Raging Sea. Really timely as hurricane season approaches on June 1 given her insights into government & the working class. twitter.com/Longreads/stat…
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I can’t get over this piece by @PhadkeTai. twitter.com/longreads/stat…
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I have been friends with Tanya Selvaratnam for 15 years. I just happened to be staying at her apartment the night the news broke about Eric Schneiderman. It was eye opening. twitter.com/Longreads/stat…
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"As a journalist, I want to understand the facts, but I also want to tell the story through the people impacted. Some people I talked to were wary, but they also put their trust in me and that meant everything." @RachelSlade1 talks to @Longreads: longreads.com/2018/05/23/who…
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