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The very best longform journalism, chosen every Sunday by @DVNJr & @JacobFeldman4. “A newsletter born of love.” — @AirMailWeekly. Since 2014.
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Welcome to @sundaylongread--your new Twitter home for great reads and superb writers, the SLR podcast, our weekly newsletter and more. Enjoy! —DVN
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Federal investigators have been looking into a youth baseball company owned by the MLB Players Association, and our very own Don Van Natta Jr., along with Jeff Passan, digs up the details, from a headquarters that turns out to be a mailbox wedged between a liquor store and a
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Players Way was cited in an anonymous whistleblower complaint last November that triggered an ongoing criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn.
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Which bulb produces more near-infrared (NIR) light? Here we have an IR-SENSE photo comparing different light bulbs being operated at the same power. All appear as "warm white" color to the eye but the difference in the amount of invisible NIR light present is
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Rahm Emanuel is “the impish, maddening, relentless Kiehl’s lotion devotee, hoping to equal parts charm and bulldoze his way to the Oval Office.” The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker—an SLR contributing editor—spent the last few months hanging with Emanuel (and interviewing nearly 50 of
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He’d like you to keep an open mind.
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Brace Belden excoriates audio media's modern form, but it’s OK. He’s allowed to. He’s a podcast host himself.
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In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.
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The true crime pros at Texas Monthly return with another astounding, human story of the ongoing mystery around an infant's death in 2013 and the community's continued efforts to find justice.
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Marian Fraser once ran the go-to day care for Waco’s elite. But the community turned against her after she was arrested for the death of a child in her charge. The evidence against her was circumst...
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Ellen Cushing dives into how food delivery systems are up-ending the restaurant industry and entire neighborhoods. Read more below and subscribe!
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Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.
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Check out this week's issue featuring @gregpmiller, @LayWilliams, @mkerrhard, @AshleyRParker, @MicheleMcPhee & more
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The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
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The Hatred of Podcasting. By Brace Belsen for @thebafflermag Featured in today’s @sundaylongread newsletter:
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In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.
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From today’s SLR double issue, including a special Music Insert curated by Chris Dalla Riva. If you haven’t subscribed to the best longform journalism newsletter on the planet, please join us! It’s free!
Morning! We have a special double issue to share today. And we've been given an extra hour to read this weekend- enjoy!
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Emily Baumgaertner Nunn embedded with vice investigators trying to fight a growing world of traffickers preying on underage women. In our top read this week, she brings the haunting situation to life. @nytimes
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Inside the effort to pull minors from ‘the Blade,’ one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the United States.
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Morning! We have a special double issue to share today. And we've been given an extra hour to read this weekend- enjoy!
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The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
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Would you rather have a fully nude, open casket funeral or an open information corpse funeral, your unlocked phone and laptop available for mourners to scroll through? Writer Kiki Dy explores this question in a new SLR original story.
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What happens when you come into a relatives digital remains and are forced to confront questions of identity, addiction, and family history?
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Start your week with the SLR, featuring @priyakrishna, @nxthompson, @MashaHamilton, @danielkolitz, @christophernull, @ben_machell & more!
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The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
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"Going in, I thought, 'Huh, this concept might make for a great docuseries.' But well before the end of the journey, I'd decided that @priyakrishna and team had actually delivered everything I'd want to watch—and more."- @JacobFeldman4 on his top pick
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A year in the making of a rookie’s first restaurant.
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“When running was going right, the rest of my life seemed to follow,” writes @nxthompson in this lyrical, deeply affecting essay about cancer, endurance and the lessons and examples we learn from our fathers. @DVNJr's top pick this week via @TheAtlantic
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I took up the sport to be like my father. I kept going because he stopped.
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Morning! We've got some great stories to share today—starting with our latest SLR Original. Enjoy and please share!
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The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
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In a new SLR original, writer Kiki Dy comes into possession of her uncle's digital remains–the data from his cell phone–and it forces her to confront questions of identity, addiction, and family history.
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What happens when you come into a relatives digital remains and are forced to confront questions of identity, addiction, and family history?
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I have a new essay in the @sundaylongread about the long fight for gender integration at Lerwick’s annual viking fire festival If you like small peculiar places, 16-hour benders, and badass women—I’d appreciate if you gave it a read
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The men are afraid of the wimmin, but they can’t admit it. So instead, they safeguard, under lock and key, their God-given, gender-exclusive right to dress up as Vikings, wield torches, and sing...
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The question of which co-founder is the “technical” one and which is the “business” one is always funny to me
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Check out this week's issue, guest edited by @pierce with picks by @AsteadWH, @JasonBeeferman, @emilyngo, @bananapeele, @thewanreport, @andrewrsorkin & more.
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The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
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"Watching him struggle with how to be himself, and be a winner, made this story about a person I can't even vote for utterly riveting." -Guest editor @pierce on his favorite piece by @AsteadWH about Zohran Mamdani.
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The story of the man most likely to be the next mayor of New York City — and the promise and peril his ascent poses for the Democratic Party.
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