Best of Longform.org 2019

Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home, Rachel Aviv writes.

In a damning new report, Casey Newton gives an unprecedented look at the day-to-day lives of Facebook moderators in America. His interviews with twelve current and former employees of Cognizant in Arizona reveal a workplace perpetually teetering on the brink of chaos.

Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true.

Paul Skalnik has a decadeslong criminal record and may be one of the most prolific jailhouse informants in U.S. history. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.

After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency’s quiet embrace of big data.

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

The <em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em> director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.

Before dozens of staffers walked out right behind her , Deadspin’s former Editor in Chief Megan Greenwell conducted her own exit interview after resigning from her position in August 2019. In this courageous farewell column , she diagnoses why so many media owners are unfit to be in the business of journalism, despite the woefully misguided trend of private equity firms purchasing “cheap” media companies as just another asset to flip in an investment portfolio. In the eyes of the already-wealthy, turning a profit — practicing the quaint art of adequately resourcing, supporting, and otherwis…

A chance encounter left Harvard professor Bruce Hay homeless, out of work, and buried in litigation with Maria-Pia Shuman and Mischa Haider. A law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?

July 16, 2019 – Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes.