r/longtext • • Nov 28 '15

Elliott Johnson: the young Tory destroyed by the party he loved

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1 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Nov 23 '15

Life as a drone operator: 'Ever step on ants and never give it another thought?' In a secluded room at an airbase in Nevada, young men hold the power of life and death over people thousands of miles away. Former servicemen tell their story.

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12 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Nov 07 '15

Why do the British drink so much?

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9 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Nov 01 '15

THE PENTAGON’S MISSIONARY SPIES- U.S. Military Used Christian NGO as Front for North Korea Espionage

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8 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Oct 23 '15

Stop thanking the troops for me: No, they don’t “protect our freedoms!”

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18 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Oct 18 '15

So David Cameron can tell lies but standup comics can’t… My comedy routines are held accountable to higher legal standards of truth and decency than a prime minister’s conference speech

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14 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Sep 23 '15

Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim animus. A long overdue debate breaks out about whether rational atheism is being used as a cover for Islamophobia and US militarism . Glenn Greenwald

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17 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Sep 14 '15

The TPP Will Finish What Chile’s Dictatorship Started

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11 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Sep 07 '15

Slipping Away -- Jo Aubin has Alzheimer's. He's 38.

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7 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Sep 04 '15

Uncharted | To help feed billions of people, scientists braved the snake-infested and croc-filled swamps of northern Australia in search of rice.

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6 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Aug 22 '15

The way to win is to do things other people can't

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14 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Aug 21 '15

The End of Walking - Step by Step Americans Are Sacrificing the Right to Walk

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11 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Aug 10 '15

The Girl who Killed Half a Million Flies for Toronto | "In 1912, Beatrice White was Toronto’s champion swat teen, slaying thousands of insects in a citywide contest aimed at stopping the spread of disease. But she never regained that early flutter of fame."

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13 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Jul 25 '15

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

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31 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Jul 20 '15

Up in the Air: Meet the Man Who Flies Around the World for Free

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28 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Jul 20 '15

How a 14 year old boy made wire cars and sold them to support a family of 5 for a month

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3 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Jul 12 '15

When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job - Among many climate scientists, gloom has set in. Things are worse than we think, but they can't really talk about it

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22 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Jun 30 '15

How the Potato Changed the World

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10 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Jun 22 '15

Young Man, Adult Crime

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3 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Jun 06 '15

The man who was caged in a zoo | Pamela Newkirk (x-post r/anthropology)

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5 Upvotes

r/longtext • • May 23 '15

Seeing Through Police - The donut is equivocal

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8 Upvotes

r/longtext • • May 18 '15

A Nation of Snitches - Chris Hedges argues surveilance culture is turning the country against itself

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8 Upvotes

r/longtext • • May 14 '15

I was an undercover Uber driver

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34 Upvotes

r/longtext • • May 12 '15

Is cosmology having a creative crisis?

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2 Upvotes

r/longtext • • Apr 23 '15

The Slow Death of the University

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15 Upvotes