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Publications

Buzzfeed

This Is Where 150 Years Of Ignoring Anti-Asian Racism Got Us

“For so long, we’ve thought keeping our heads down and being invisible in America might help us gain acceptance — but the recent wave of racist violence has shattered that myth.”

Venessa Wong Buzzfeed Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Politics Media

My Mom Believes In QAnon. I’ve Been Trying To Get Her Out.

“My entire vocation as an investigative reporter was predicated on being able to reveal truths, and yet I could not even rustle up the evidence to convince my own mother.”

Albert Samaha Buzzfeed Mar 2021 25min Permalink

World

The Factories in the Camps

Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.

Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan Buzzfeed Dec 2020 20min Permalink

Politics

Peter Thiel Met With The Racist Fringe As He Went All In On Trump

The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it?

Rosie Gray, Ryan Mac Buzzfeed Sep 2020 Permalink

History

The Worst Day of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction

The author visits the 9/11 Memorial Museum, 13 years after his sister’s death.

Steve Kandell Buzzfeed May 2014 10min Permalink

Arts

Don't Be Afraid Of The Clowns

A dispatch from the World Clown Association Convention.

Leigh Cowart Buzzfeed Jul 2014 30min Permalink

What My Mother Didn't Talk About

“My mother and I were very close, but when she died last year there was still so much I didn’t know about her.”

Karolina Waclawiak Buzzfeed Jul 2020 20min Permalink

History Politics

I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore

Our economy is built on Americans of all class levels buying things. What happens when the ability—and desire—to do so goes away?

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed May 2020 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime

Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered

Dee Dee Blancharde was a model parent: a tireless single mom taking care of her gravely ill child. But after Dee Dee was killed, it turned out her daughter Gypsy had never been sick at all.

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Editor’s note: Dean is a contributor to Longform.

Michelle Dean Buzzfeed Aug 2016 35min Permalink

Politics Health

This Doctor Is Suggesting COVID-19 Lockdowns Are a Conspiracy to Take Away Your Freedom

A viral video in which Dr. Annie Bukacek questions the severity of COVID-19 has given anti-lockdown activists across the country a sense of validation.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed May 2020 25min Permalink

Movies & TV

How Margot Robbie Changed Her Hollywood Destiny

Once pigeonholed as “the hottest blonde ever,” the star of Birds of Prey has become one of Hollywood’s most promising producers.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Feb 2020 20min Permalink

Tech World

How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter

Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.

Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Feb 2020 10min Permalink

Religion

Forgive Us Our Debts

Jubilee Baptist is a quasi-socialist, anti-racist, LGBTQ-affirming church conducting a bold experiment: focusing on debt, work, and freedom from oppression instead of fear and moralism.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Dec 2019 35min Permalink

Business Media

The Company That Branded Your Millennial Life Is Pivoting To Burnout

When a marketing team found themselves burning out, they shifted their business focus to doing something about it. But if capitalism caused this problem, can capitalism fix it?

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Business

The Cost of Next-Day Delivery

How Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.

Caroline O'Donovan, Ken Bensinger Buzzfeed Aug 2019 35min Permalink

Tech

The Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”

The button that ruined the internet—and how to fix it.

Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Jul 2019 10min Permalink

Media

Andy Ngo Has the Newest New Media Career. It's Made Him a Victim and a Star.

“Look out at Twitter, at YouTube, at cable news. Behold a whole precarious world of media hopefuls swarming every bitter inch of the culture war, filming angry Americans, filming each other, filming themselves, grimly determined to find or frame a few seconds of a reality to sell.”

Joseph Bernstein Buzzfeed Jul 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Travel

Going Overboard

“I went on a lesbian cruise and it blew up my entire life.”

Shannon Keating Buzzfeed Jun 2019 40min Permalink

Business History

Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Madewell’s authenticity problem, written by the great-grandson of the company’s founder.

Dan Nosowitz Buzzfeed Sep 2014 20min Permalink

Sex

Queer People Can’t Forget Our Own Mortality — Except In Montrose

It was a place where you could, whatever you needed could to look like, for so many folks who’d been told they could not.

Bryan Washington Buzzfeed Jun 2019 15min Permalink

Crime Science

A Brutal Inheritance

His DNA solved a century-old jailhouse rape. The victim: his grandmother.

Virginia Hughes Buzzfeed Jun 2019 20min Permalink

Health

Unlimited Power

A yearlong investigation by BuzzFeed News, based on leaked recordings, internal documents, and dozens of interviews with fans and insiders, reveals how Robbins has berated abuse victims and subjected his followers to unorthodox and potentially dangerous techniques. And former female fans and staffers have accused him of inappropriate sexual advances.

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Katie J.M. Baker on the Longform Podcast

Jane Bradley, Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed May 2019 Permalink

Arts

America's Hardest-Working Know-It-All

A profile of Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings.

Kevin Lincoln Buzzfeed Feb 2013 15min Permalink

Movies & TV

“Fixer Upper” Is Over, But Waco’s Transformation Is Just Beginning

How HGTV changed a city.

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Apr 2019 35min Permalink

Politics

'Everyone Wants to Find a Villain'

What happened when Pete Buttigieg tore down houses in Black and Latino South Bend.

Henry J. Gomez Buzzfeed Apr 2019 30min Permalink

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