Excellent Reads

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Are you tired of clickbait and the current state of journalism? This community is meant to remind you that excellent journalism still happens. While not sticking to a specific topic, the focus will be on high-quality articles and discussion around their topics.

Politics is allowed, but should not be the main focus of the community.

Submissions should be articles of medium length or longer. As in, it should take you 5 minutes or more to read it. Article series’ would also qualify.

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  1. Common Sense. Civility, etc.
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  3. Please either submit an archive link, or include it in your summary.

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We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back (www.theguardian.com)
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When Therapy Didn’t Work, I Turned to an Illegal Drug (thewalrus.ca)
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The Pint-Size Singers Hoping to Be Opera Stars (www.nytimes.com)
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The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus has long been an elite training ground for young singers. Getting in requires grit, personality and a soaring voice.

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I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
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or, the exhaustion of a blind user

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Lost and Found: The Unexpected Journey of the MingKwai Typewriter (madeinchinajournal.com)
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Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30443525

An interesting history of a brilliant machine thought lost and the man who created it, and the mundane forces of history that kept it from the world.

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What is the cure for the West’s individualist worldview? (aeon.co)
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Pluralistic: The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline (pluralistic.net)
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An English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones (www.theguardian.com)
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Stained, warped and terroir rich: the global and shockingly sustainable lives of wine barrels (www.theguardian.com)
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Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plot (www.theguardian.com)
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The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing (oxfordamerican.org)
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Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed (www.theguardian.com)
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The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Redditor Accidentally Reinvents Discarded '90s Tool to Escape Today's Age Gates (arstechnica.com)
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The Firefighter With O.C.D. and the Vaccine He Believed Would Kill Him (www.nytimes.com)
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For years, Timmy Reen tried to hide his compulsions and rituals from everyone at his New York City firehouse — until his secret was forced out in the open.

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Me and My Censor: How censorship works in China (madeinchinajournal.com)
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The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town (www.theguardian.com)
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We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus (www.antipope.org)
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Are We All Living Beyond Our Means Now? With rising costs of living, debt, and the doomscroll-to-checkout pipeline, we’re overspending more than ever. (archive.is)
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‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son (www.theguardian.com)
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Secrets & Wives (archive.ph)
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A single working mom begins a whirlwind romance with a man named Martin Lewis, then discovers that Martin Lewis doesn’t exist. This true story picks up right where Scorsese’s ‘GoodFellas’ left off.

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The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine (archive.today)
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The Gen X Career Meltdown (archive.ph)
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Bubble Trouble (prospect.org)
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https://archive.ph/iWtPK Bubble Trouble An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

by Bryan McMahon March 25, 2025

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The End of Children - The New Yorker (archive.ph)
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