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Mark Landler writes in the NYT to explore Hillary Clinton's history as a foreign policy hawk. She had backed Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, before endorsing a fallback proposal of 30,000 (Obama went...

by Steve Lilley For the citizens of western Missouri, the Civil War effectively began with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. By revoking the Missouri Compromise, the act permitted settlers to decide whether Kansas would enter the Union...

“Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate; the final words of the inscription on the Gate of Hell.” Abandon every hope, you who enter.” – Dante Alighieri I know it probably sounds kind of weird to hear a recruiter allude to Classic literature, but there...

Nikil Saval | Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace | Doubleday | April 2014 | 31 minutes (8,529 words) Below is an excerpt from the book Cubed, by Nikil Saval, as recommended by Longreads contributor Dana Snitzky. * * * I have known the inexorable...

In Syracuse on Father’s Day in the ghetto, 500 black people were blowing some weed and shooting some guns when a female cop showed up. The videos show the crowds fleeing the gunfire as the officer runs towards it. When her backup arrived, they found...