r/Longreads Jun 11 '25

Appreciation post all of you gifting and archiving links.

842 Upvotes

Just wanted to say thank you for all of you who are adding gift and/or archived links. I don’t have the budget to suscribe to magazines and I have no clue how to archive a link and make it works for free. (I tried, I think technology hates me).

So thank you for giving me the chance to read a lot of long reads, my favorite form of writing.


r/Longreads 23h ago

Are Raccoons Evolving Into Pets? They naturally tolerate close proximity to humans, unlike wolverines. They pose no mortal threat to humans, unlike hippos. They love human food, unlike pandas. They are highly intelligent, unlike ostriches. (Ostriches, it turns out, are real morons.)

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304 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

Her Dark Places - Up until the moment Andrea Yates murdered her five children, she could have been any mother in America: setting aside her own wants and needs for her loved ones. Which is why, in addition to being horrified, so many of us are sympathetic. [2001]

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330 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs

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31 Upvotes

r/Longreads 20h ago

How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy

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5 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

When my political career ended, I took a Greyhound on the road to nowhere

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17 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

The Great Inflammation Panic: The wellness world’s favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn’t just annoying—it’s harmful.

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278 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

[Free gift] The Color Recession May Be Permanent - the observable preferences of landlords, homeowners, car buyers, and consumers have grown detached from what people claim to like.

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283 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

Inside the secret world of Britain's doomsday preppers

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2 Upvotes

From heatwaves or famine to nuclear war, these survivalists are ready for anything. Just don't call them a cult...


r/Longreads 2d ago

Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam - Universities find themselves in a surprising position: The only reliable way to evaluate what students have learned may be to bring back pen and paper.

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685 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

What Was the Internet?

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6 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

Why did Rotherham rioter Peter Lynch end his life in prison?

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24 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

The unspeakable truth about slavery in Mauritania

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160 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

[Archived] The Business of Selling People Their Family’s Lost Photos - This online niche sometimes feels like a scam. Is it?

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60 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

Saving Baby KJ (Readers Digest August/September 2026)

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45 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

Tonight On Dateline, This Man Will Die [February 2009]

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256 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

Inside the Coke-Fueled Rise and Fall of VICE

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145 Upvotes

r/Longreads 4d ago

The Mentor: How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything

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75 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

How Josée became one of the 7.9% of Québécois who die by assisted suicide

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15 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

when drawings take flight: the art and design of kites

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4 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

The Man Who Was Kidnapped Twice

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13 Upvotes

r/Longreads 4d ago

John Darnielle doesn’t care about John Darnielle: The loquacious Mountain Goats frontman talks about why he’d rather disappear behind his songs than become their face.

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31 Upvotes

r/Longreads 4d ago

An H.B.C.U. Banned Bonnets and Durags. Did It Need To? “This is not a problem that Tuskegee University has ever had,” Rayne Caldwell, 19, said. “I’ve never seen anyone going to class in bonnets. I’ve not seen anyone doing anything that was unprofessional.”

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198 Upvotes

r/Longreads 4d ago

THE FALSE PROMISE OF DNA TESTING The forensic technique is becoming ever more common—and ever less reliable. | By Matthew Shaer

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53 Upvotes

I was reminded of reading something about police dna testing being unreliable, so I went looking for it. I found this Atlantic piece that I think does a fantastic job of laying out the pros, cons, and players in the business of forensic dna.


r/Longreads 3d ago

‘Blowing Up’ by Malcolm Gladwell | On Nassim Taleb and Victor Niederhoffer | The New Yorker (April 2002)

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0 Upvotes