{"id":25230,"date":"2018-10-23T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/t\/longreads#id1615495321"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T16:26:00","slug":"the-editors-longreads-picks-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/the-editors-longreads-picks-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Editors&#8217; Longreads Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Editors&#8217; Longreads Picks<\/h1>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/images\/made\/images\/content\/cards\/stack-longreads_890_594_80.jpg\" \/><figcaption>\n        A room wallpapered in (presumably unread) <em>New Yorkers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>              Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lars_o_matic\/15757978592\/\"> lars_o_matic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><ul>\n<li>Two chefs found success in one of the unlikeliest places in Utah. Now they&#8217;re doing &#8220;hand-to-hand combat&#8221; with the White House.<\/li>\n<li>The self-help movement has &#8220;a startling paucity of theories&#8221; about the self. To be precise: It has one.<\/li>\n<li>Manhattan is a wealthy ghost town, empty but for places selling things that Amazon can&#8217;t provide.<\/li>\n<li>A longread on Google&#8217;s overambitious former head of autonomous cars makes you wonder whether self-driving cars are worth the hype.<\/li>\n<li>An investigation into &#8220;a new and incendiary business: militarized contract killing, carried out by skilled American fighters.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Confessions of an ATF agent who infiltrated one of Los Angeles&#8217;s worst motorcycle gangs.<\/li>\n<li>Evidence shows that literature can reshape a reader&#8217;s mind\u2014even perhaps when thoughts aren&#8217;t overtly expressed or described.<\/li>\n<li>Democracy is a hard-won, easily rolled back state of affairs\u2014&#8221;from which many secretly yearn to be released.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The sometimes-real, sometimes-imagined war between America and atheism is as old as America itself.<\/li>\n<li>Oregon&#8217;s cannabis legalization has gone off-script, plagued by overproduction, ecological threats, and inaccurate reporting.<\/li>\n<li>Socialists could be more vocal about their ability to incorporate innovation\u2014and even the market\u2014into a mixed economy.<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Chee on learning to live in\u2014and love\u2014New York.<\/li>\n<li>Rosecrans Baldwin planned to spend a month sampling Los Angeles woo-woo. Then events turned much darker than planned.<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah Berlin&#8217;s pluralist rejection of ultimate solutions remains a best argument for liberalism. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe\u2019re dancing with the devil here.\u201d Neurochemical events may underlie the placebo effect\u2014which suggests it&#8217;s manufacturable.<\/li>\n<li>A food writer reckons with the knowledge that his glowing review killed a restaurant by overwhelming it with too much business.<\/li>\n<li>Thirty years after his early climate change reporting, Bill McKibben assesses our extraordinary hubris in the face of extinction.<\/li>\n<li>The share of Americans who believe in the devil is up more than 8% since 1990.<\/li>\n<li>The consequences of being a white police officer who refuses to shoot a black man.<\/li>\n<li>How to redesign an outdated, centralized, top-down power grid.<\/li>\n<li>Among the findings of an analysis on domestic slayings in America: Nearly a third of the perpetrators were publicly known threats.<\/li>\n<li>The case for Agatha Christie.<\/li>\n<li>An in-depth look at suicide from a writer who has attempted it many times.<\/li>\n<li>The number of hate crimes in the US is artificially low, and one reason may be that police don&#8217;t correctly classify attacks.<\/li>\n<li>To keep activists under control, China sends them on vacation, otherwise known as <i>bei l\u00fcyou<\/i>, \u201cto be touristed.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A fascinating account of how Russia came to possess the nerve agents used in recent poisonings around London.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We need to rewrite the stories we tell about nature and Los Angeles is the best place to do it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>America&#8217;s violent crimes are down overall, but unsolved shootings in cities are up, leaving residents with a new uneasiness.<\/li>\n<li>The dramatic, chilling, inside story of the Thai soccer team cave rescue.<\/li>\n<li>How a \u201cprivate Mossad\u201d came to be involved in a small-town election for the hospital board.<\/li>\n<li>A Swiss company is confidently optimistic it can capture CO? from the air and bury it underground\u2014eventually for less $100 a ton.<\/li>\n<li>In the ongoing argument over whether the universe preserves or prevents life, the preservers are currently winning.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;World&#8217;s Greatest Art Thief&#8221; explains his primary motivation: an absent father.<\/li>\n<li>Patricia Lockwood explains the internet of your mind.<\/li>\n<li>The true reality of confronting white supremacy, as learned in South Africa: \u201cIt means white people giving things up.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A very good, very thorough\u2014almost too thorough?\u2014profile of Bill Hader by Tad Friend.<\/li>\n<li>A tour of Yosemite\u2019s Lyell Glacier helps explain where climate change is headed.<\/li>\n<li>Politically, the prison abolition movement is hard to discuss. Morally, it&#8217;s clearly right.<\/li>\n<li>The unique, <em>horrifying<\/em>, and inspiring story of an unlikely relationship between a Guant\u00e1namo prisoner and his guard.<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles has a shade problem: It&#8217;s often understood as &#8220;a luxury amenity,&#8221; and on many blocks it&#8217;s basically outlawed.<\/li>\n<li>The new race to the moon isn&#8217;t among superpowers, but businesses who want to break altogether new ground.<\/li>\n<li>Thirty years later, a Phildelphia native tries to make sense of the devastating MOVE bombing.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;People want us to starve to reduce carbon emissions.&#8221; Carbon credits comfort the rich, but the real-world use is impractical.<\/li>\n<li>Lyz Lenz on the bygone era of mom blogs, replaced by mom influencers and savvy monetization.<\/li>\n<li>On the origins of the anthropocene as our current geologic epoch, and the theory&#8217;s many supporters and detractors.<\/li>\n<li>America spends $35 billion a year on substance-abuse treatments. Heavy drinking causes 88,000 deaths a year.<\/li>\n<li>William Langewiesche goes deep on Malaysia&#8217;s missing flight 370, finding more riddles with the police than in the sea.<\/li>\n<li>A very good account of young women in New Hampshire and a dogged detective taking down a cyber-stalker.<\/li>\n<li>A glimpse inside the classes European sailors took\u2014as far back as the 16th century\u2014to learn how to navigate the globe.<\/li>\n<li>Defendants can pay hundreds of dollars month for an ankle monitor\u2014and if they can&#8217;t pay, they may go to jail.<\/li>\n<li>The murder trial of Drakeo the Ruler offers a way &#8220;to examine the toxic plaque corroding the American criminal justice system.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A massive assessment of two books on the life and career of Prince.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The left, let\u2019s be honest, has had a pretty bad century so far.&#8221; And that is where Universal Basic Income comes in.<\/li>\n<li>On Neil Young and his ambition to bring fidelity to digitally distributed music.<\/li>\n<li>osecrans Baldwin follows a young actress around Hollywood for a year to find out what it takes to \u201cmake it\u201d in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>On industrial noise, which is growing louder\u2014faster than our bodies can adapt.<\/li>\n<li>A lovely profile of Thomas Joshua Cooper, photographing the edges of the source of Western civilization.<\/li>\n<li>The Aru Islands, where Wallace came up with his ideas on evolution, are set to become a sugar plantation.<\/li>\n<li>On the struggling Biden campaign&#8217;s continued efforts to push its candidate&#8217;s &#8220;Big Presidential Energy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A profile of Bruno Manser, the fascinating Swiss cowherd who became a &#8220;secretary&#8221; to Malaysia&#8217;s nomadic Penan tribe.<\/li>\n<li>How the Palmer Raids targeted political dissidents in America 100 years ago, arresting thousands\u2014and nearly deporting them.<\/li>\n<li>An enlightening\u2014and disturbing\u2014report on public schools&#8217; use of &#8220;seclusion rooms&#8221; to isolate students with disabilities.<\/li>\n<li>As survival rates improve, cancer becomes a chronic condition\u2014and patients become a consistent revenue stream for hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>A lovely article by a political reporter with a stutter on Joe Biden\u2019s struggle with his own.<\/li>\n<li>Cryptocurrency will not die. In fact, it might be stronger than ever. Rosecrans Baldwin follows a young man down the rabbit hole.<\/li>\n<li>An investigation finds Amazon facilities&#8217; rate of serious injuries is more than double the national warehousing average.<\/li>\n<li>Akin to a Starr Report, here is a synthesized narrative of the Ukraine affair based on what we know so far.<\/li>\n<li>Rather than install measures to prevent sex offenders from using its free apps, Match prefers to tell users to use &#8220;common sense.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Running out of options, some Lyme patients are turning to bee stings in hopes of disease remission.<\/li>\n<li>A disconcerting dive into online murder markets.<\/li>\n<li>A great essay about the words being coined\u2014from &#8220;solastalgia&#8221; to &#8220;pre-TSD&#8221;\u2014for those who suffer from accepting the climate crisis.<\/li>\n<li>Art critic Peter Schjeldahl, with only a few months left to live, is &#8220;taking in every last detail of the pulsating world.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>How the internet killed feminism.<\/li>\n<li>Exposed to violent content daily, some YouTube moderators are suffering from PTSD. (Warning: Disturbing descriptions ahead.)<\/li>\n<li>America&#8217;s class war is &#8220;between elites primarily dependent on capital gains and those primarily dependent on profes\u00adsional labor.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Jill Lepore finally opens her best friend&#8217;s laptop, 20 years after her death.<\/li>\n<li>Comparing social studies textbooks customized for California and Texas illuminates America&#8217;s deepest partisan divides.<\/li>\n<li>An essay by Dayna Tortorici on the push and pull of an Instagram addiction.<\/li>\n<li>The market wants us to live alone, or in small units. David Brooks joined a much larger &#8220;forged family&#8221; and thinks you should too.<\/li>\n<li>In mountaineering circles, death is almost predictable. A Bozeman therapist\/shaman tries to help surviving colleagues cope.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The work I now want to do no longer fits into the <i>Post<\/i> scheme.&#8221; The 1960s changed Norman Rockwell into a social liberal.<\/li>\n<li>A fabulous essay by Meehan Crist on whether or not to have children during the climate crisis.<\/li>\n<li>Instagram-ready feminism packaged as a public good\u2014i.e., The Wing\u2014is great until you actually have to work there.<\/li>\n<li>The coronavirus has already changed the world, and it&#8217;s hard to see how we&#8217;re ever going back.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Buford recalls learning how to bake bread from a master in Lyon.<\/li>\n<li>A remarkable photo-essay of migrants attempting to reach the United States through the Dari\u00e9n Gap.<\/li>\n<li>Supermarkets won&#8217;t ever be the same\u2014in part because online grocery shopping was already abandoning the myth of abundance.<\/li>\n<li>TMN&#8217;s Rosecrans Baldwin embeds with various government agencies and survival experts to track down the horsemen of the apocalypse.<\/li>\n<li>Stories of conformity from recent history and other theories attempt to explain why Republicans won\u2019t turn on Trump.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to the pandemic, professional tennis is undergoing massive shifts\u2014and it desperately needs more self-aware conversations.<\/li>\n<li>Nikole Hannah-Jones makes the (convincing) case for reparations.<\/li>\n<li>How the production of American diet staples\u2014in this case, a July 4th meal\u2014can expose thousands of US workers to the coronavirus.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent reporting after a protest in Ohio\u2014turned violent thanks to anti-protesters\u2014exposed years of overt and covert racism.<\/li>\n<li>Blacks in the US know fascism has long been a part of America.<\/li>\n<li>An interactive migration model shows where people will go as the climate crisis forces mass movement.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It took way too much Black death to get here.&#8221; Kiese Makeba Laymon at the onset of the pandemic, while on book tour.<\/li>\n<li>What we talk about when we talk about defunding the police.<\/li>\n<li>To keep the United States on a 1.5 degree warming path, a top energy expert says we need to electrify everything immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Modeling where Americans will move over the coming decades as the climate crisis changes life as we know it.<\/li>\n<li>NPR\u2019s Nina Totenberg remembers her great friend Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/t\/longreads\">More to see &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  The Editors&#8217; Longreads Picks<\/p>\n<p>        A room wallpapered in (presumably unread) New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>              Credit:  lars_o_matic.<\/p>\n<p>    Two chefs found success in one of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25231,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25230\/revisions\/25231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}