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Top Pick

The Weirdest Story About a Conservative Obsession, a Convicted Bomber, and Taylor Swift You Have Ever Read
David Weigel The Daily Beast Aug 2014
The case of Brett Kimberlin.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/30/the-weirdest-story-about-a-conservative-obsession-a-convicted-bomber-and-taylor-swift-you-have-ever-read.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=diggtwitter

Also

The Dying Russians
Masha Gessen New York Review of Books Sep 2014
A 15-year-old Russian has a shorter life expectancy than a peer in Bangladesh, Cambodia, or Yemen.
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/sep/02/dying-russians/

Club Meds
Alex French Buzzfeed Aug 2014
A trip to The Villages, a booming retiremement community outside Orlando, where the golf is free, casual sex is everywhere, and there is no cemetery.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/likethebreadorthedressing/seven-days-and-nights-in-the-worlds-largest-rowdiest-retirem#3y9fywp

How to Get Into an Ivy League College—Guaranteed
Peter Waldman Businessweek Sep 2014
Tony Ma will bet you as much as $600,000 to train your student for college acceptance. If the student gets into their top choice school, Ma takes the cash. Rejected? He gets nothing.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-03/college-consultant-thinktank-guarantees-admission-for-hefty-price

The Orthodox Hit Squad
Matthew Shaer GQ Sep 2014
One rabbi’s tactics against husbands who refuse to divorce their wives.
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201409/epstein-orthodox-hit-squad

Why Not Kill Them All?
Keith Gessen London Review of Books Sep 2014
A dispatch from Donetsk.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n17/keith-gessen/why-not-kill-them-all

Podcast: Emily Bazelon
http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-107-emily-bazelon