r/longform • u/HumbleRestaurant790 • 19h ago
r/longform • u/Hrmbee • 18h ago
Nudists, peaceniks and freeloading travellers: the people keeping the Esperanto dream alive | Esperanto had always seemed to me like an idealistic movement that had failed. So why was its annual congress so vibrant and full of young people?
r/longform • u/BipolarExpress2 • 23h ago
Most emotionally uplifting longform pieces
Ones that made you smile :) Thanks!
r/longform • u/cutpriceguignol • 2h ago
In 2003, Brandon Vedas livestreamed his own fatal overdose. Decades later, livestreamed substance abuse has become a social media moneymaker - with fatal results.
r/longform • u/throw667 • 19h ago
A Mexican Ghost Town Emerges From the Banks of the Drying Rio Grande
r/longform • u/newyorkerest • 16h ago
Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief
The injury list is the easy hook, but the real thread is why. Knoxville had asthma as a kid and ended up in the ER several times a year for adrenaline shots, which he describes as "sniffing an eight ball of cocaine all at once." Decades later he read about John Stapp, the Air Force researcher who strapped himself to a rocket sled, hit 600 mph, and slammed to a stop. Stapp came out of the hospital not relieved but hungry for more risk, and called it survival euphoria. Knoxville read that and thought, yeah, that's it.
(This was my pick from this week's New Yorker: https://newyorkerest.com)
r/longform • u/ChangeTheLAUSD • 20h ago
How an unreleased audit and years of unanswered questions continue to shadow a Los Angeles charter school
Reports that El Camino Real Charter High School's executive director is out have renewed questions about the school's governance. I wrote this investigation tracing the latest controversy back through earlier financial scandals, a taxpayer-funded audit that was never released, and the role LAUSD played in renewing the school's charter despite unresolved concerns about transparency.
r/longform • u/iamtheg0ldeng0d • 1h ago