Longform

  • Podcast
  • Best Of
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013
    • 2012
  • Archive

    • Sections
    • Publications
    • Writers
    • Tags
  • Random Article
  • Contact

    • podcast@longform.org

Writers

Haley Sweetland Edwards

Politics

The Big Lobotomy

How the Gingrich-era brain drain crippled the government and led to last year’s shutdown.

Haley Sweetland Edwards, Paul Glastris Washington Monthly Jul 2014 55min Permalink

Business Politics

The Corporate "Free Speech" Racket

How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation.

Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Feb 2014 45min Permalink

America’s Worst Community Colleges

On the dysfunctional community colleges of San Francisco.

Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Aug 2013 1h50min Permalink

Business Politics Science

Special Deal

The shadowy cartel of doctors that control U.S. healthcare.

Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Jul 2013 2h Permalink

Politics

He Who Makes the Rules

The bureaucratic hell of enforcing legislation in Washington.

Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Mar 2013 2h30min Permalink