{"id":1735,"date":"2018-12-06T04:56:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:12","slug":"2018-longform-readings-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2018\/12\/06\/2018-longform-readings-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Longform readings, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the third set of longform readings I have come across in 2018. they cover a wide range of topics, yet all are interesting and well worth the time investment required to read them.<\/p>\n

The FBI Tried to Use the #MeToo Moment to Pressure an Environmental Activist Into Becoming an Informant<\/a>
\nBy Alleen Brown,John Knefel<\/p>\n

Univision Is A Fucking Mess<\/a>
\nBy Kate Conger, David Uberti, and Laura Wagner
\nThis is the story of how corporate raiding, complacency, excess, and incompetence are gutting a media company that matters to tens of millions of people. <\/p>\n

Al Qaeda Won<\/a>
\nBy Stephen Marche
\nSeventeen years after the 9\/11 attacks, the terrorists have definitively won the battle for the American mind.<\/p>\n

She reported her 2006 rape. Then, nothing happened. In the #metoo era, what do we owe her?<\/a>
\nBy Elizabeth Bruenig in Arlington, Texas.
\nTwelve years ago, Amber Wyatt reported her rape. Few believed her.\u00a0 Her hometown turned against her. The authorities failed her.
\nWhat do we owe her now? <\/p>\n

A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites<\/a>
\nby Lisa Margonelli
\nAt least half of termite studies used to be about how to kill them. But science is discovering their extraordinary usefulness<\/p>\n

\u2018They was killing black people\u2019<\/a>
\nBy DeNeen L. Brown
\nIn Tulsa, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history still haunts the city with unresolved questions, even as \u2018Black Wall Street\u2019 gentrifies<\/p>\n

Uncontrolled sand mining led to Kerala floods. This is only waiting to happen again<\/a>
\nBy Damayanti Datta
\nAnd it\u2019s not just Kerala. Almost each of India\u2019s 400-plus rivers is in the grip of the sand mining mafia.<\/p>\n

\u2018This guy doesn\u2019t know anything\u2019: the inside story of Trump\u2019s shambolic transition team<\/a>
\nBy Michael Lewis
\nThe author of Moneyball and The Big Short reveals how Trump\u2019s bungled presidential transition set the template for his time in the White House<\/p>\n

How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying<\/a>
\nby Nathan J. Robinson
\nThis man should not serve another day as any kind of judge\u2026 <\/p>\n

Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father<\/a>
\nBy David Barstow, Susanne Craig, and Russ Buettner
\nThe president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today\u2019s dollars from his father\u2019s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

When The Times Kept Female Reporters Upstairs<\/a>
\nBy Amanda Svachula <\/p>\n

What One Devastated Community Can Teach the World About Mental Health<\/a>
\nBy Matt Simon
\nAs the anniversary of the massive wildfires in Northern California arrives, researchers are trying to pinpoint the best ways to treat the anxiety, depression, and trauma left in the disaster\u2019s wake.<\/p>\n

How 20 years of stop and search has widened America\u2019s racial divide<\/a>
\nBy James Forman Jr.
\nA police push to seize guns from cars ended in disproportionate numbers of black people getting arrested for minor crimes. <\/p>\n

Analyse this: what Freud can teach us about Trumpism<\/a>
\nBy Gary Greenberg
\nAs a psychotherapist, here\u2019s what I\u2019ve learned in the two years since Donald Trump moved into the White House. <\/p>\n

The Ghosts of the Glacier<\/a>
\nBy Sean Flynn
\nWhat happens when climate changes quickly in a previously frozen place, when the earth heats up and the mountains melt? In the high Swiss Alps, here’s what happens: The ice gives up the bodies\u2014and the secrets\u2014of the past. <\/p>\n

Invasion of the \u2018frankenbees\u2019: the danger of building a better bee <\/a>
\nBy Bernhard Warner
\nBeekeepers are sounding the alarm about the latest developments in genetically modified pollinators. <\/p>\n

What the media aren\u2019t telling you about Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>
\nBy John R. Bradley
\nThe dissident\u2019s fate says a lot about Saudi Arabia and the rise of the mobster state<\/p>\n

Big in Japan<\/a>
\nBy Tejal Rao
\nThe story of how Kit Kats, once a British chocolate export, became a booming business from Hokkaido to Tokyo \u2014 and changed expectations about what a candy bar could be.<\/p>\n

Tommy Robinson and the far right\u2019s new playbook<\/a>
\nBy Daniel Trilling
\nThe former EDL leader is one of a new breed of entrepreneurial activists who are bringing extremist myths into the mainstream \u2013 while also claiming they are being silenced. <\/p>\n

China’s hidden camps<\/a>
\nBy John Sudworth
\nWhat’s happened to the vanished Uighurs of Xinjiang? <\/p>\n

How A Massive ICE Raid Changed Life In One Small American Town<\/a>
\nBy Hamed Aleaziz
\nO’Neill, Nebraska, had become a refuge for scores of Central Americans fleeing poverty and unrest. An ICE raid changed all that.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s Selective Outrage<\/a>
\nBy Mohit Priyadarshi
\nThe murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has rightly caused anger in the West, but why are western journalists quiet about the brutal war Saudi Arabia wages in Yemen with America\u2019s help?<\/p>\n

\u2018You descend into hell by coming here\u2019: how Texas shut the door on refugees <\/a>
\nBy Justine van der Leun
\nAt the US-Mexico border, asylum seekers are trapped in a hostile environment. <\/p>\n

\u2018A wall built to keep people out\u2019: the cruel, bureaucratic maze of children\u2019s services <\/a>
\nBy Jake Anderson
\nIn a system cut to the bone, gaining access to the support we had been promised for our daughter\u2019s special educational needs was an exhausting, soul-sapping battle.<\/p>\n

Why \u2018Predator\u2019 Is A Subversive Masterpiece<\/a>
\nBy zhyxtheman
\nMost people don\u2019t think \u2018art\u2019 when discussing Predator. The 1987 science fiction classic is fondly remembered for spectacular action, quotable dialogue, and a monster who has joined the ranks of Frankenstein and Dracula as a cultural icon. However, many overlook some of the film\u2019s more subtle underpinnings. Though at a glance the film is just another entry into the 80s cycle of action films, it actually serves as the ultimate rebuke to the genre\u2019s most popular conventions. <\/p>\n

Church of secrets<\/a>
\nBy Timothy Sawa, Lynette Fortune, and Bob McKeown
\nIglesia Ni Cristo has thousands of followers in Canada, but in the Philippines, some devotees have been accused of kidnapping and murder. This is the story of a Canadian man who ran up against members of the church and ended up dead.<\/p>\n

Time to Expose the Women Still Celebrating the Confederacy<\/a>
\nBy Kali Holloway
\n\u2018Their name is on all their monuments, but maybe because those plaques are rusty and faded people don\u2019t realize the UDC is still a functioning organization.\u2019<\/p>\n

Your Children\u2019s Yellowstone Will Be Radically Different <\/a>
\nWritten by Marguerite Holloway. Photographs and time-lapse video by Josh Haner. Map by Derek Watkins.
\nThey went to America\u2019s oldest national park to capture how climate change is altering the landscape and ecosystem. <\/p>\n

The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten By the\u00a0Public<\/a>
\nBy David Montero
\nWatergate revealed that multinational corporations, including some of the most prestigious American brands, had been making bribes to politicians not only at home but in foreign countries.<\/p>\n

Ancient Industrial Machinery & Modern Christian Mythology<\/a>
\nby Richard Carrier
\nChristians like to deny the Dark Ages existed, and instead reimagine them as a glorious age of knowledge and progress. That\u2019s just not true.<\/p>\n

The Insect Apocalypse Is Here<\/a>
\nBy Brooke Jarvis
\nWhat does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?<\/p>\n

Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World<\/a>
\nBy Dr. Nathalie Mar\u00e9chal
\nSurveillance capitalism and targeted advertising have become the norm on the internet, and it’s hurting all of us.<\/p>\n

Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo <\/a>
\nBy Alex Blasdel
\nAre you sitting comfortably? Many people are not \u2013 and they insist that the way we\u2019ve been going to the toilet is all wrong. <\/p>\n

I don’t think I’m going to continue making this list. I will still be reading a variety of longform writing, but making these posts take up a lot of time. I don’t really have a desire to keep track of and share them anymore. I guess a story about shit is as good as any to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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