The Most Popular Articles of the Week
Why we forget our childhoods, a rabbi with a hit squad and a tutor who guarantees an Ivy League acceptance letter — the week's top stories on Longform.
1) The Dying Russians
A 15-year-old Russian has a shorter life expectancy than a peer in Bangladesh, Cambodia, or Yemen.
Masha Gessen New York Review of Books Sep 2014 15min
2) The Weirdest Story About a Conservative Obsession, a Convicted Bomber, and Taylor Swift You Have Ever Read
The case of Brett Kimberlin.
David Weigel The Daily Beast Aug 2014 10min
3) The Great Forgetting
On childhood amnesia, or why we don’t remember much before age seven.
Kristin Ohlson Aeon Jul 2014 15min
4) The Orthodox Hit Squad
One rabbi’s tactics against husbands who refuse to divorce their wives.
Matthew Shaer GQ Sep 2014 15min
5) How to Get Into an Ivy League College—Guaranteed
Tony Ma will bet you as much as $600,000 to train your student for college acceptance. If the student gets into their top choice school, Ma takes the cash. Rejected? He gets nothing.
Peter Waldman Businessweek Sep 2014 15min
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