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Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form. April 12, 2021 Awakening I have no memory of my birthplace of Tallinn, Estonia. I was two years old when Red Army busted through the Leningrad Blockade and marched in. The Russians were hardly liberators. They were almost worse than the Nazis. They’d culled the population of Estonia to a million people, and who knows what fate my family would have met had we not fled on one of the last boats out. My earliest memory is the raw, dank smell o...

What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become a more excellent human being. Following in Socratess footsteps, Christopher Phillips-"Johnny Appleseed with a masters degree" (Utne Reader)-investigates these same questions, beginning in the marketplace of modern-day Athens. He goes on to investigate the timely responses and outlooks ...

A Timeline of Minnesotas Alternative Media Last fall the Star Tribune Media Company scapegoated the coronavirus and unceremoniously pulled the plug on alt-weekly City Pages after a 41-year run. The only appropriate tribute? A snarky history of alternative presses in the Twin Cities. Expand Images courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society ( Goodhue, Der Wanderer, U of M team, Roy Wilkins); StudioSmart (gavel), Robuart (peace), Nito (flag); Deb Hopp (Twin Cities Reader); from Alamy stock photo: Ev...

Peter Overby has covered Washington power, money, and influence since a foresighted NPR editor created the beat in 1994. Overby has covered scandals involving House Speaker Newt Gingrich, President Bill Clinton, lobbyist Jack Abramoff and others. He tracked the rise of campaign finance regulation as Congress passed campaign finance reform laws, and the rise of deregulation as Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions rolled those laws back. During President Trumps first year in offic...

Peter Overby has covered Washington power, money, and influence since a foresighted NPR editor created the beat in 1994.

Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. All through December, we’re featuring Longreads’ Best of 2020. In an unprecedented, strange, and chaotic year, we’ve leaned on writers’ reflections and commentaries on the world around us to help us make sense of moments, of our lives. We revisited a wide range of arts and culture stories featured by the team this year and selected eight favorites that resonated with us. The New York Times M...

camera icon COURTESY OF GORDON BALL He would later explain his motivation for pioneering the ritual walk: “I felt it was time to take not just another hike on Mt. Tam, the guardian peak for the Bay and for the City — as I had done so many times — but to do it with the intent of circling it, going over it, and doing it with the formality and respect I had seen mountain walks given in Asia.” Starting at Redwood Creek in Muir Woods, the three Beat poets walked clockwise...