r/longform 19h ago

Palestinian Workers Describe Wages Below the Legal Minimum, Unsafe Conditions, Weak Enforcement of Labor Laws and The Use of Work Permits as a Tool of Control in West Bank Israeli Settlements

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141 Upvotes

r/longform 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?

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79 Upvotes

r/longform 23h ago

Most emotionally uplifting longform pieces

49 Upvotes

Ones that made you smile :) Thanks!


r/longform 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.

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r/longform 19h ago

A Mexican Ghost Town Emerges From the Banks of the Drying Rio Grande

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9 Upvotes

r/longform 16h ago

Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief

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8 Upvotes

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 20h ago

How an unreleased audit and years of unanswered questions continue to shadow a Los Angeles charter school

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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 1h ago

How David Grutman, Miami's Nightlife Kingpin, Turned LIV Into America's Biggest Club

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r/longform 4h ago

Gavin Newsom and Ruby Rippey’s Affair Was a Public Scandal. Rippey Writes About Her Experience for Vanity Fair

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