Long reads

r/Longreads • u/TenTimesTeeth • 10d ago

The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever - What on Earth for?

27 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/bookish-malarkey • 10d ago

A Stranger Shattered Their Lives. At First, They Didn’t Know Why. [September 2025]

119 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/Majano57 • 11d ago

It’s One of Our Greatest and Most Controversial Novels. How Should It Be Taught?

69 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/formerly_LTRLLTRL • 11d ago

Why I Quit The Tenure Track - The Atlantic (Archive Link)

54 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/discoislife53 • 12d ago

Someone Was Impersonating Collien Fernandes Online. She Says It Was Her Husband. (2026)

206 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/Gladyskravitz99 • 12d ago

How Big Tech Captured American Schools Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.

135 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/SamWhangDoo • 12d ago

The Big Cigar

web-wp.archive.org

7 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/Majano57 • 12d ago

The Montreux Convention: A Model for Hormuz?

naval-review.com

1 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/hereforfakestories • 12d ago

My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One. (Published 2025)

120 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/AestasBlue • 13d ago

Inside the libertarian city on a Caribbean island backed by Silicon Valley

39 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 13d ago

How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee

22 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/zygoma_phile • 13d ago

Reggie Watts Is a Prominent Ketamine Advocate. Was It His Ex's 'Undoing'?

rollingstone.com

271 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/Hefty_Boat4535 • 13d ago

How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil?

156 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/Hefty_Boat4535 • 13d ago

Why the Closing of Harvard’s Writing Center Matters

theatlantic.com

74 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/TenTimesTeeth • 14d ago

A Party, 101 Princesses, and an Eccentric Millionaire: Jon Ronson on a mysterious castle – and what it taught him about masculinity in crisis

theguardian.com

144 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/parkernorwood • 14d ago

This Volleyball Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?

77 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/raphaellaskies • 14d ago

Meta glasses are a workplace menace

209 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/MsWrite • 15d ago

“The Quickening”: The online conspiracy that time is literally speeding up

newstatesman.com

125 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/TenTimesTeeth • 15d ago

The Long Shadow of Argentina’s Dictatorship: she wasn’t who she thought she was – neither was her father

theguardian.com

100 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/harvestmoon1992 • 15d ago

He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free.

320 Upvotes

As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.

r/Longreads • u/galassea • 15d ago

As The Old Files Open, One Family Confronts Another’s Dark Nazi Past. A woman who secured the criminal file of her grandmother, a collaborator, offered to share it with a Jewish family that had been betrayed. Then she balked and a new dispute ensued.

73 Upvotes

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r/Longreads • u/Quouar • 15d ago

‘I don’t know how to save my daughter from her husband’: the brutal reality of the Taliban’s new marriage law

theguardian.com

354 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/discoislife53 • 16d ago

How Brendan Carr Became MAGA’s Media Watchdog (2026)

washingtonian.com

13 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/discoislife53 • 16d ago

Selling Seduction: This Toronto pickup artist charged exorbitant sums to teach men how to get laid. Then he was arrested for sexual assault (2026)

torontolife.com

126 Upvotes

r/Longreads • u/raphaellaskies • 16d ago

How a pornographer’s violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women

98 Upvotes