The Sunday Long Read
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The very best longform journalism, chosen every Sunday by @DVNJr and @JacobFeldman4. “A newsletter born of love.” — @AirMailWeekly
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Elaina Plott Calabro Elaina Plott Calabro spent 10 weeks working on this story about Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who feels “I’m supposed to do” what can seem to be an impossible job. The Atlantic theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
The anatomy of a threat. This one was made by a 52-year-old man named Joe Morelli, who told Marjorie Taylor Greene, “You spread hatred, and you’re gonna pay for it.” Ruby Cramer meticulously traces the threat that lands Morelli in a Federal prison. washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…
So many great stories in here — and thanks for linking to the GQ Magazine Randy Johnson piece, Don Van Natta Jr. and ✏️Jacob Feldman!
Hello and welcome back! We've got a tremendous list of stories to share today by writers like Saskia Solomon,Meridith McGraw,Brett Martin,joe sexton,Howard Bryant,Ruby Cramer + many more mailchi.mp/sundaylongread…
In Don Van Natta Jr. & ✏️Jacob Feldman's favorite read of the week, Sally Jenkins mixes horror and humor in a larger-than-life tale. The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/sports/interac…
A deeply human story about thousands of Greek children adopted by Americans during the Cold War, many of them separated from their families because they were targeted by political persecution following the Greek Civil War. Jessica Bateman
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Photographer Alejandro Cegarra spent more than six years documenting the Central American migrant experience and the impact of U.S. and Mexican immigration policies.
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From Salman Rushdie Parties Again by Simon van Zuylen-Wood for New York Magazine
Full story: nym.ag/4d7ZWrE
An utterly delightful profile of a brazen New York City operator, Frank Carone, who was Eric Adams’s biggest supporter turned Chief of Staff at City Hall. We laughed out loud several times while reading. David Freedlander New York Magazine
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A big, long, proper, bloodcurdling The New Yorker foreign affairs feature reported from inside hell on earth, otherwise known as Al-Hol, a detention camp inside Syria. Anand Gopal
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An Italian journalist spent months sailing down the Volga river for Harper's Magazine, reporting on many different facets of modern life in wartime Russia under crushing sanctions from the west. Tthis piece felt totally unique.
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There’s an Alain Delon retrospective on at Film Forum in Manhattan right now, which gives The New Yorker's Anthony Lane a premise for a fun (and sexy!) piece.
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A deeply reported look at the mutually beneficial bond between UFC’s Dana White and Donald Trump, going back years. Matt Flegenheimer Joe Bernstein The New York Times
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Gorgeous layout, photography, design and on the ground reporting from Africa centered around one big question: Is the camel the new cow? Chico Harlan Rael Ombuor Malin The Washington Post
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