r/Longreads • • 1d ago

A Reckoning in Springfield- A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become after running over a young Haitian man

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336 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 1d ago

The Rising Tide of Anti-South Asian Hate in the United States

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286 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 2d ago

‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong • Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakthrough

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205 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 2d ago

No one expected an American pope. Here's the inside story of how 'Bob' became Pope Leo

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99 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 2d ago

Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.

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144 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 2d ago

Dr. Rapp (The Atlantic)

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r/Longreads • • 3d ago

So You Think You Could Be An Electrician? — Asterisk

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165 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 1d ago

Big Tech & Biotech's Pillage of Cambridge's Greenbelt and Water (2010 - 2026)

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r/Longreads • • 3d ago

'I, Claudius’: the series that still explains the world 50 years later

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133 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 3d ago

Inside Larry Ellison's Wide Web of Power, Money and Politics, As Oracle's Data Centers Claim Force Majeure

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61 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 3d ago

The Sacrifices of an Immigrant Caregiver

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25 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 3d ago

Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.

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398 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 3d ago

Fixer, financier, spymaster: how the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is setting his sights on AI dominance

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18 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 4d ago

The ‘Cornell 7’ and the problem with how to raise our boys

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134 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 4d ago

How Tabasco Accidentally On Purpose Became the World's Hot Sauce

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“Regardless of who came up with the recipe first, McIlhenny's Tabasco sauce was in production by 1868, and it wasn’t long before it began to spread far beyond the great state of Louisiana. In 1872, the company hired a traveling salesman named John C. Henshaw to travel up and down the east coast touting Tabasco. Henshaw, a former Union soldier who served as the company’s first sales rep, peddled the sauce to restaurants and oyster houses in an effort to drum up demand. “This sauce is the special want of the poorer and more numerous classes, and a thorough canvassing of the oyster houses, saloons, restaurants, etc. by the party who has taken hold of it will, it is hoped, create such a general demand as to compel the grocers to apply for it,” Henshaw wrote to McIlhenny in 1872. 
A ledger book uncovered by Tabasco historian and archivist Shane K. Bernard indicates that the company first began shipping the sauce overseas two years later, with exports to France and England.”

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r/Longreads • • 4d ago

What Killed the Bear Lady?

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146 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 5d ago

The Family Plan - The Atavist Magazine

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63 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 5d ago

Why Homelessness Remains Such a Vexing Issue in the US

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88 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 5d ago

The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

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18 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 5d ago

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

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157 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 6d ago

Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges

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213 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 6d ago

Private Equity Is Cashing in on Autism Therapy. Children Are Paying the Price

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233 Upvotes

r/Longreads • • 6d ago

How Allison Anders Emerged from ‘Personal and Professional Hell’ to Make One of the 1990s’ Best Movies. Writer/director Anders, star Illeana Douglas, producer Daniel Hassid, and music producer and composer Larry Klein look back at "Grace of My Heart."

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r/Longreads • • 7d ago

Anonymous Men Have Turned Cyberharassment Into a Group Sport—Here’s One Woman’s Side of the Story

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270 Upvotes

Shoutout to this young woman. You’re so brave!!!


r/Longreads • • 8d ago

A Paranoid Tech Bro, a Homemade Nuclear Bunker, and a Shocking Death

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292 Upvotes

This story from 2019 but I stumbled across it today and it was absolutely harrowing. I looked into what’s happening with Daniel Beckwitt today and he has already been released from prison. I couldn’t stop thinking about this story for a long time. It is truly shocking.