Here are our favorite stories from across the web, along with
original essays and reporting from our own contributors.
Your support keeps this service running.
Contribute $5 or $50 to the Longreads Story Fund. For every dollar you chip in, WordPress.com matches with another $2.
Want these emails once a week instead? Update your preferences here.
“A small-but-loud faction of parents and activists is making life miserable for local school officials—and shouting down the kids who speak in favor of lessons about the history and persistence of racial discrimination.”
“Developments like these along 30A are selling environmentalism as a commodified luxury good—and making a declaration about who can and can’t thrive in the face of climate change.”
“James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.”
“While it is not new for technology to mediate our relationship to death, the interactivity and public-ness of in-memoriam profiles is distinctly novel.”
“It’s easy to see why the company didn’t want Ronald delivering the ‘our chicken is chicken’ message, and thanks to the creepy clown craze, he hasn’t been seen on our screens since – though McDonald’s clearly aren’t opposed to general creepiness, if its current “Laughter” ad is anything to go by.”
“A chronicle of a slow-motion climate disaster that became one of Oregon’s deadliest calamities.”
More Stories
Longreads Podcast
