Welcome back to our fortnightly round-up of the long reads on the web that are worth the investment. If you want to make sure you don’t miss future Global Comment content, don’t forget to sign up...
She was in the bathroom when three gun shots sounded outside of her apartment in Kyiv. Arkady Babchenko’s wife ran out to find her husband lying face down in the entrance to their apartment...
For Eritreans fleeing their country, knowing one journalist’s phone number can be their only chance for survival. Meron Estefanos runs a radio phone-in-show from her home in Stockholm, Sweden, to...
Before we delve into sharing the longreads we’re loving right now, our most popular post last week was Louise Hung's sensitive, thoughtful, provocative look at YouTuber Logan Paul's venture into...
LA Weekly has been one of Los Angeles’ main alternative news sources since 1978, but a disturbing recent change in ownership and management has Angelenos concerned about the future of journalism in...
Good morning, gentle readers! What a wild week it's been, especially in the wide world of institutionalised sexism. There are a lot of amazing longreads out there this week, so we had a trouble...
Good morning, gentle readers! It's been a chaotic and fascinating week in news, from the U.S. president posting childish .gifs on Twitter to the tragic and troubling developments in Myanmar. We've...
In the Trump era, things previously thought unimaginable in the United States have become politics as usual, but the uproar over ESPN reporter Jemele Hill has managed to plumb new depths, and charged...
Good morning, gentle readers! Recommended reading was displaced by the Game of Thrones finale (be sure to read Dominick Evans' post about it, and his prior dive into incest on the show), but...
Good morning, gentle readers! It has been a rough weekend for the world, and we're salving some of the struggle with some meaty longreads on subjects like women in nature, the journalist...