The Week’s Best Longreads
Monica Hesse, The Washington Post
READ MORE The Evolution of Jared Diamond
A new factory in Ohio struggles to match jobs to job-seekers.
READ MORE Baseball Books Bring the Heat
Christopher Beam, The New Republic
My hilarious, heartbreaking, triumphant season with the American Football League of China.
READ MORE Fallen Photog’s Gutsiest Shots
Is There Hope For Survivors of the Drug War?
Monica Potts, The American Prospect
READ MORE Giving It Up in H.G. Wells’s Home
Criminalized and discarded, falling at the bottom of every statistic, they want something better.
READ MORE Hillary Memoir Gets Release Date
Steven Godfrey, SB Nation
How to buy college football players, in the words of the man who delivers the money.
READ MORE How I Write: Jane Goodall
Chris Lehmann, The Baffler
READ MORE Weed Made and Ruined My Family
The neoliberal flight from public responsibility is a tangled, and curiously instructive, tale of strikingly other-than-intended consequences.
READ MORE Dealing With Dad the Dealer
Eric Larson, Mashable
One year after the Boston bombing, a maimed survivor faces the choice of amputation.
READ MORE ‘Doctor Zhivago’ Used Against USSR
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