Ghosts of Greenwood
A reporter encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.
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What Is Owed
If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans.
A Prescription for More Black Doctors
The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.
School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson
Michael Brown beat the odds by graduating from high school before his death—odds that remain stacked against black students in St. Louis and the rest of the country.
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Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His new podcast is Revisionist History.
“The amount of criticism you get is a constant function of the size of your audience. So if you think that, generously speaking, 80% of the people who read your work like it, that means if you sell ten books you have two enemies. And if you sell a million books you have 200,000 enemies. So be careful what you wish for. The volume of critics grows linearly with the size of your audience.”
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Ira Glass is the host and executive producer of This American Life.
“You can only have so many questions about feelings, I think. At some point people are just like alright, enough with the feelings.”
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Donovan X. Ramsey is a journalist and author of the new book When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era.
“I've only ever wanted to write about Black people—and that includes the elements of our lives that are difficult. I’ve always prided myself on being able to metabolize that information and not really be harmed by it. And this book really taught me that writing and processing is not just something that you do in your head. That the information does go through you as you're trying to make sense of it. And it's not happening to you, right? It's not like a direct form of PTSD that you have, but you do experience some trauma when you open up your imagination in that way.”
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt attends the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Old Terror, New Hearts
A trip to a Louisiana leper colony.
A Swarm of Controversy
In their struggle for survival, bees have an unlikely ally: Monsanto.
Most Hollywood Writers’ Rooms Look Nothing Like America
Could that finally be changing?
Attack of the Six-Foot Woman
On body horror, ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,’ and the growing pains of being the tall girl.
Not All Smurfs and Sunshine
A profile of Esquire features writer Chris Jones. Plus: the Jones archive on Longform.org.
Reflections on Violence
“Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it.”
How a Young Woman Lost Her Identity
Hannah Upp keeps disappearing, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?
Trust and Consequences
The government required him to see a therapist. He thought his words would be confidential. Now, the traumatized migrant may be deported.
Tatiana’s Luck
Tatiana Angulo came to the U.S. legally and was trying to do everything right. Then came the coronavirus.
To Stay or To Go?
Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.
“Assistance Not Approved”
Her home still wrecked months after a freak storm, an Iowa woman’s FEMA ordeal presages the turmoil ahead as climate disasters worsen.
You’re Not a Rape Victim Unless Cops Say So
This is the story of the night Hannah was not officially raped in Washington, D.C.
A Betrayal
The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.
The Disappeared
Police on Long Island wrote off missing immigrant teens as runaways. One mother knew better—and searched MS-13’s killing fields for answers.
What to Do About Ahav?
A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.
The Last Days Inside Trailer 83
A last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.
