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The 10 Best Articles of 2024 as chosen by The Lazy Reader
29 December 2024 @ 10:39 am
The 10 Best Articles of 2024 as chosen by The Lazy Reader 
Every week The Lazy Reader serves up a selection of the net’s best journalism. We asked them to pick the very best articles from 2024. This is what they chose:The Invisible Man by Patrick Fealey - A firsthand account of homelessness in America.The Egg by Magali Caz
Every week The Lazy Reader serves up a selection of the net’s best journalism. We asked them to pick the very best articles from 2024. This is what they chose:The Invisible Man by Patrick Fealey - A firsthand account of homelessness in America.The Egg by Magali CazThe 12 Best Articles of 2024 by Jacob Feldman of The Sunday Long Read
28 December 2024 @ 4:45 pm
The 12 Best Articles of 2024 by Jacob Feldman of The Sunday Long Read
The Sunday Long Read is a weekly roundup of the best longform journalism delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday morning. We asked SLR founder and editor Jabob Feldman to pick the best articles of the year, and he didn’t disappoint:Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia by Lauren Smiley - She came to the US with a dream. Using platforms like U
The Sunday Long Read is a weekly roundup of the best longform journalism delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday morning. We asked SLR founder and editor Jabob Feldman to pick the best articles of the year, and he didn’t disappoint:Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia by Lauren Smiley - She came to the US with a dream. Using platforms like U10 Great Articles about Money
11 December 2024 @ 8:56 pm
10 Great Articles about Money
If Every Day Is a Rainy Day, What Am I Saving For? by Samantha Irby - I know I should have invested in a sturdy pair of those bootstraps people who speak at graduation ceremonies are always talking aboutWhat Goes Up by Andrew Lipstein - Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe?
If Every Day Is a Rainy Day, What Am I Saving For? by Samantha Irby - I know I should have invested in a sturdy pair of those bootstraps people who speak at graduation ceremonies are always talking aboutWhat Goes Up by Andrew Lipstein - Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe?5 Great Articles about the High Seas
2 December 2024 @ 5:10 pm
5 Great Articles about the High Seas
Alone at the Edge of the World by Cassidy Randall - Susie Goodall wanted to circumnavigate the globe in her sailboat without stopping. She didn’t bargain for what everyone else wantedWere Pirates Foes of the Modern Order—or Its Secret Sharers? by Daniel Immerwahr - We’ve long viewed them as liberty-loving rebels. B
Alone at the Edge of the World by Cassidy Randall - Susie Goodall wanted to circumnavigate the globe in her sailboat without stopping. She didn’t bargain for what everyone else wantedWere Pirates Foes of the Modern Order—or Its Secret Sharers? by Daniel Immerwahr - We’ve long viewed them as liberty-loving rebels. B10 Great Essays about Abortion
8 October 2024 @ 1:12 pm
10 Great Essays about Abortion
The Endgame in the Battle Over Abortion by Mary Ziegler - The arc of the fetal personhood movement signals where Republicans may be headedSomewhere Worse by Jia Tolentino - We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy
The Endgame in the Battle Over Abortion by Mary Ziegler - The arc of the fetal personhood movement signals where Republicans may be headedSomewhere Worse by Jia Tolentino - We are entering an era not just of unsafe abortions but of the widespread criminalization of pregnancy8 Great Essays about Social Media
12 September 2024 @ 7:48 pm
8 Great Essays about Social Media
The I in the Internet by Jia Tolentino - The Internet has gone from being a utopia where everything was possible to a place full of angry people obsessed with their own representationThe New Pornographers by Roxane Gay - It’s a TikTok world, creative and sprawling and strange and anarchic and tedious and gross and you can’t stop scrolling and you can’t stop looking and you just want more. So what’s
The I in the Internet by Jia Tolentino - The Internet has gone from being a utopia where everything was possible to a place full of angry people obsessed with their own representationThe New Pornographers by Roxane Gay - It’s a TikTok world, creative and sprawling and strange and anarchic and tedious and gross and you can’t stop scrolling and you can’t stop looking and you just want more. So what’s 5 Great Articles about Internet Dirty Work
6 September 2024 @ 12:13 pm
5 Great Articles about Internet Dirty Work
AI Is a Lot of Work by Josh Dzieza - As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere…Road-Tripping With the Amazon Nomads by Josh Dzieza - To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and cov
AI Is a Lot of Work by Josh Dzieza - As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere…Road-Tripping With the Amazon Nomads by Josh Dzieza - To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and cov7 Great Articles about Anxiety
20 August 2024 @ 6:42 pm
7 Great Articles about Anxiety
Understanding the Anxious Mind by Robin Marantz Henig - Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers Surviving Anxiety by Scott Stossel - I’ve tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s how I came to terms with the nation’s most common mental
Understanding the Anxious Mind by Robin Marantz Henig - Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers Surviving Anxiety by Scott Stossel - I’ve tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s how I came to terms with the nation’s most common mental10 Great Articles about the Apocalypse
17 August 2024 @ 9:19 pm
10 Great Articles about the Apocalypse
Asteroids! Solar Storms! Nukes! Climate Calamity! Killer Robots! by Joel Achenbach - A guide to contemporary doomsday scenarios — from the threats you know about to the ones you never think ofHere Comes the Sun—to End Civilization by Matt Ribel - Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.
Asteroids! Solar Storms! Nukes! Climate Calamity! Killer Robots! by Joel Achenbach - A guide to contemporary doomsday scenarios — from the threats you know about to the ones you never think ofHere Comes the Sun—to End Civilization by Matt Ribel - Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.The 50 Best Articles and Essays of 2024 (So Far)
1 August 2024 @ 7:33 pm
The 50 Best Articles and Essays of 2024 (So Far)
Our roundup of the best journalism from the first half of the year
Our roundup of the best journalism from the first half of the year