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Searching for Jobs, Gen Z Feels Like It’s Staring Into ‘the Void’
"Hundreds of applications later, even being rejected by an actual human being counts as a victory."
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A Night Living in Penn Station
"For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges."
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No iPad Till After Dinner, Mom
"Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled feeds. It’s their adult children’s job to save them."
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Is There Anything BPC-157 Can’t Cure?
"Proponents of the peptide say it can treat gingivitis, runner’s knee, even dementia."
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Keeping Up Appearances
"The women taking over the funeral industry."
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are showcasing stories on dark nutrition, Eurovision, Wikipedia, medjool dates, and the slappy man-hug.
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A Texas Cop Signed on to Help ICE Deport His Neighbors. It Tore the Town Apart.
"Today more than 1,900 agencies in at least 30 states have signed up for ICE’s task force model, with more than 29,000 deputized officers. With their help, ICE recently hit a record of immigration arrests."
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Traveling Route 66 in the Age of Data Centers
"Driving through America’s back roads, the emptiness of the information superhighways comes into sharp relief."
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Road Trip at the Borderland
A trip along the North Korean border, with a Chinese father and his estranged daughter, plastic bags of food, and an 81-year-old grandmother who refuses to wear a seat belt.
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The Proponents of “Dark Nutrition” Think Everything You Know About Food Is Wrong
"More Americans are rejecting everything they’ve been taught about food."
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How Jim Morrison Surmounted Tragedy and Skied Down Everest
"The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on."
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The Ledger and the Blade
"The 1993 stabbing of Monica Seles and our quest for optimization."
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Go Fast, Turn Left: The Anderson Speedway & Indiana’s Data Centers
"The racers do their first tenuous laps behind the pace car. The subterranean rumble of their engines grows."
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“I Play the Field; I Read Around.”
The Great Circle Author on Her Omnivorous Habits, E-Reader Renaissance, and Unending Search for “The One.”
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You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished.
"Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not 'notable' enough. How do these poor souls take the news?"
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The Lucrative World of Literary Scams
"Why writers are the perfect target."
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Benchma(r)king
"James Bridle experiments with combining their practical carpentry skills and the abundant theoretical knowledge of AI to build a chair."
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Vocal Accords
"Eurovision faces the music."
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Doubt, idiocracy, baseball, meals, and fish. Find out why these five stories stood out.
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The Dominican Baseball Factory
"Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it."