Good Long Reads

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Good Long Reads

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  AI companies will fail.
  We can salvage something from the wreckage.
  By Cory Doctorow (28/01/2026)
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  The Confederacy was a con job on whites.
  And still is. McClatchy DC Bureau
  By Frank Hyman (Updated 3/11/2021)
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  The 1619 Project
  An ongoing initiative marking the 400th anniversary of American slavery.
  NYT Magazine (Aug 2019)
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  The Radical Case for Growing Huge Swaths of Bamboo in North America
  Inside Climate News (Jan 11 2021)
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  QAnon's Capitol Rioters & Lizard People Theory
  The Nashville bomber's theory is deadly serious.
  NBC Think (Jan 12 2021)
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  The Decade we Almost Stopped Climate Change
  Losing Earth.
  NY Times Magazine
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  How the National Museum of African American History and Culture Came to Be
  The definitive story by Lonnie G. Bunch III.
  Smithsonian Magazine (Sept 2016)
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  From Libba Cotten to Rhiannon Giddens
  The North Carolina Black folk tradition persists.
  Daily Kos (May 17 2020)
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  The Conspiracy Theory Handbook
  How to recognize and deal with conspiracy theories.

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