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“Successful brand identities in the House and on talk radio have never before relied on such similar skill sets — there has never been so much politics in media, and media in politics.”

Getting clean with a three-day trip.

Previously: The Longform Guide to Addiction.

The story of Soylent, a Silicon Valley concoction designed to replace your meals.

A dispatch from the Central African Republic.

A profile of rapper Bun B, “the unofficial mayor of Houston.”

Revisiting a high school hoax.

The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.

A son goes to visit his dying father.

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An investigation into allegations that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is assassinating exiled dissidents.

“A story is a kind of biopsy of human life.”

In appreciation of meaningful, ubiquitous, enduring applications.

Previously: Paul Ford on the Longform Podcast.

On May 16, 1913, after he’d spent years earning a chance at American stardom, Canary Islander shortstop Alfredo Cabrera played his one and only Major League Baseball game.

Shamir is 15, bored and broke and balancing right on the edge.

The undoing of Tina Brown.

Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?

Some passions are more dangerous than others.

A tour with the Stones, an appearance on The Munsters, and a song about “how Boston is a shit hole.”

Inside Atlanta’s 80s-era queer underground.

The controversy-filled world of shipping pallets.

Policing the world of experimental research in the age of TED talks and Freakonomics.

Policing Tottenham Hotspur fans.