The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed
The grim world of outsourced content moderation.
What Kind of Creep Sells a Celebrity's Naked Photos on the Internet?
The on and offline search for the prime suspect in last month’s celebrity nude photo hacking scandal.
Jessica Pressler writes for New York, Elle and GQ.
“I really like hustlers, stories about someone who comes out of nowhere and tries to do it for themselves. Those people are just easy to like. Even when they're sort of terrible, they're easy to like.”
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“The Dumbest Person in Your Building Is Passing Out Keys to Your Front Door!”
Airbnb vs. New York City.
The Same River Twice
The story of rivers and relationships.
My Day Interviewing For The Service Economy Startup From Hell
“The idea for Handybook occurred to me when I was studying at Harvard. It was so hard to find a reliable cleaning service to tidy my apartment! You know?”
The Red Flag in the Flowerpot
Ben Bradlee’s nagging concerns about Deep Throat.
"Hurt That Bitch"
What undercover investigators saw inside a factory farm.
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Harry Major Took in Ex-Cons for Sex and Friendship. Then He Turned Up Dead.
“You probably don’t believe me, but I didn’t kill Harry.”
Cheeky Genius
A profile of Nicki Minaj.
Warehouse Empire
The political maneuvering behind the growth of massive consumer goods warehouses and the health hazards that often follow.
Dynasty
A profile of Oscar de la Renta.
The Longform Guide to Disease
Cancer, AIDS and weaponized smallpox—a collection of the best articles about disease.
Inside the Ebola Wars
The author of The Hot Zone on how geneticists can help contain the current outbreak.
Bill Clinton in BubbaLand
At home, Arkansas’s favorite son can do no wrong.
In Conversation: Marc Andreessen
“There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.’
This Week's Most Popular Articles in the Longform App
A terrifying night with Afghanistan's only female warlord, the bungled theft of a $6 million violin and an explanation of Gamergate — the most read articles this week in the new Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
Team Spirit
Memories of life as a freshman cheerleader.
Previously: Jeanne Marie Laskas goes behind the scenes with the Cincinnati Ben-Gal cheerleaders.
You Can Look It Up
The Wikipedia origin story.
The Beggars of Lakewood
A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.
'Am I Being Catfished?'
An author confronts her troll.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Field Recordings"
Cemetery field recordings reveal terrifying messages.
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The Shadow Life of Jim Irsay
The tragic romance of Jim Irsay, the shrewd owner of the Indianapolis Colts, and Kimberly Wundrum, a mother who shared his longtime addiction to painkillers, that ended with her overdosing in the secret condo he bought her.
The Pale Cast of Thought
The writer is reluctantly whisked away to to a small house in upstate New York to attend an ayhuasca ceremony with six strangers.
