The Week’s Best Longreads
What We Left Behind Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker An increasingly authoritarian leader, a return of sectarian violence, and a nation worried for its future.
Trust Me Jason Tanz, Wired How Airbnb and Lyft finally got Americans to share.
READ MORE Is Obama’s Asia Pivot More Than Talk?
Earthquakes and the Texas Miracle Brantley Hargrove, D Magazine Oceans of oil and gas are filling state coffers and shaking the Dallas area.
Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner? Charles Siebert, The New York Times Magazine Steven Wise is arguing for the legal “personhood” of chimps and other animals. And no one is laughing him out of the courtroom.
READ MORE Poulos Gets Piketty—and Tocqueville—Wrong
Chat Wars David Auerbach, n+1 Inside the late ’90s chat wars between Microsoft and AOL, from the perspective of a former Microsoft programmer.
How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch A complete history of San Francisco’s housing crisis.
READ MORE He’s Got a Ticket to Write
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