#longform journalism

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

In this week's Top 5:

* Ta-Nehisi Coates on necessary truths (New York Magazine) * The rise of Russian poker bots (Bloomberg Businessweek) * Searching for interplanetary life (The Washington Post) * The real predator in the woods (The Bitter Southerner) * Letting horror movies be horror movies (The Baffler)

Learn why our editors are recommending these stories.

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Things I Read That I Love #287: It's Cool How Gay Sex and Stealing Became Twinned Deviances.

Things I Read That I Love #287: It’s Cool How Gay Sex and Stealing Became Twinned Deviances.

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HELLO and welcome to the 287th installment of Things I Read That I Love, wherein I share with you some of the longer-form journalism/essays I’ve read recently so that you can read them too and we can all know more about JT Leroy! This “column” is less feminist/queer focused than the rest of the site because when something is feminist/queer focused, I put it on the rest of the site. Here…

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Si Adrien continue à être l’égérie du mouvement Adrien Is Angry At Global Companies, nous avons décidé de publiciser vos luttes les plus impressionnantes. Notre certitude est qu’ensemble, nous pouvons faire plier le grand capital. 

Pour le premier featuring, nous avons décidé de vous raconter le combat entre Sarah, une juriste acharnée et la compagnie Vueling, qui d’après la colère de tous, n’a pas fini d’essuyer nos plâtres.

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I have a long form piece about deportation up at Medium … It looks at the deportation stories of two men: Mout Iv, who was deported to Cambodia, and César, who was deported to Mexico, after a lifetime in the United States. It also looks at the changing definition of criminal deportations over the years... Read more here.

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What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?

On New Year's Day in 1985, Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was carrying 29 passengers and a hell of a lot of contraband when it crashed into the side of a 21,112-foot mountain in Bolivia. For decades conspiracy theories abounded as the wreckage remained inaccessible, the bodies unrecovered, the black box missing. Then two friends from Boston organized an expedition that would blow the case wide open.

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The effort was led by a charismatic French test and fighter pilot named Bernard Ziegler, now retired, who must stand as one of the great engineers of our time. He was (and is) despised within the French airline-pilots’ union, because he openly discussed designing an airplane so easy to fly and crash-resistant that it would be nearly pilot-proof. He did not say “idiot-proof,” but his attitude was undiplomatic in a country where pilots still wear their uniforms proudly, and it was also unwise, because, as the record has repeatedly shown, if you emphasize to pilots that they are flying a safe design, they will go to great lengths to prove you wrong.

Anatomy Of A Miracle, about the landing of US Airways 1549 in the Hudson in 2009, is occasionally deeply self-indulgent, but if you can get past the bizarrely long introduction to Canada Geese and the occasional pilot-speak, it’s well worth a read. (x)

(Also if you have the chance, look up and listen to the flight radio recording -- the epic competence of everyone involved is terribly satisfying.)

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In personal news...

In personal news…

After four years as the managing editor of AL DÍA, I’ve decided to move on. One of the best aspects of the job has been covering the amazing Latinx and PoC communities locally and nationally. The wonderful people I’ve met during my years here, coworkers, sources, colleagues, friends and community have made all of it worthwhile. I, of course, plan to continue to write, edit, comment, and tell our…

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The Story of the Greatest Male Synchronized Swimmer Who Ever Lived

When Bill May was 10, he trained with the Syracuse Synchro Cats.

This is a very good profile of an unsung athlete, made even better with an allusion to cats.

via ESPN The Magazine