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Blockchain Just Isn’t As Radical As You Want It To Be
Rachel O’Dwyer | An essay originally anthologized in Ours To Hack and To Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet | OR Books | August 2017| 6...
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The Great Online School Scam
Noliwe Rooks | Excerpt from Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education | The New Press | September 2017 | 18 minutes (5,064 words) * * * DeVos’s ties to—and support...
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The Way We Treat Our Pets Is More Paleolithic Than Medieval
John Bradshaw | Excerpt adapted from The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human | Basic Books | October 2017 | 18 minutes (4,861 words) We have no direct evidence proving that people living prior...
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An excerpt from Rachel Z. Arndt’s new essay collection, Beyond Measure. While hitching a ride to a week-long bike tour, Arndt considers the rituals of leaving — and making a clean break. Read The...
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In an excerpt from her memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T Kira Madden recalls a harrowing adventure with her parents. Read The Story The post Even the Dogs appeared first on Longreads.
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While investigating allegations of sexual-assault against Harvey Weinstein, Ronan Farrow was surveilled by an Israeli private-intelligence agency called Black Cube. Agents from Black Cube tried to get...
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Don’t F**K With the Pet Detectives
Phil Hoad | The Atavist | February 2021 | 5 minutes (1,558 words) This is an excerpt from The Atavist‘s issue no. 112, “Cat and Mouse,” by writer Phil Hoad. With dozens of felines turning up dead...
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Switch at Birth — But How?
Lindsay Jones | The Atavist | March 2021 | 5 minutes (1,556 words) This is an excerpt from The Atavist‘s issue no. 113, “The Lives of Others,” by writer Lindsay Jones. In remote Newfoundland, a search...
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Sentenced to Life At 16
Maddy Crowell | The Atavist | April 2021 | 5 minutes (1,507 words) This is an excerpt from The Atavist‘s issue no. 114, “The Invisible Kid,” by writer Maddy Crowell. The year Adolfo Davis was...
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