Author: Mark Armstrong
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Independent Publisher 2
My site is now using a simple and fast-loading new theme called Independent Publisher 2. It was designed by Raam Dev, Kjell Reigstad, Caroline Moore, and John Maeda. Read more on their work here.
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Seattle Immigration Rally
A huge crowd at Westlake Park in downtown Seattle Sunday night, speaking out.
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What My Great-Grandfather Taught Me About Trump and the Press
Longreads is teaming up with The Stranger to cover the inauguration and protests. Great first dispatch from Sydney Brownstone…
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Longreads Best of 2016
My favorite time of year! So many great stories, and more lists coming this week and next week. Huge thanks to Sari Botton and Mike Dang for putting this together.
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‘For eight years Barack Obama walked on ice and never fell.’
Obama was born into a country where laws barring his very conception—let alone his ascendancy to the presidency—had long stood in force. A black president would always be a contradiction for a government that, throughout most of its history, had oppressed black people. The attempt to resolve this contradiction through Obama—a black man with deep…
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‘With Child’: Kiera Feldman on a Pregnancy in South Dakota
Ashley arrived for her prenatal appointment at Black Hills Obstetrics and Gynecology, in Rapid City, South Dakota, wearing a black zip-up hoodie and Converse sneakers.1 To explain her absence from work that morning — a Tuesday in April 2015 — she had told a co-worker that she was having “female issues.” She was twenty-five years old and eight…
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Words Matter!
When you are a leader, your words will be heard. Your followers will be emboldened by those words, and they will act on them. These followers will have good and bad intentions. All the more reason to choose your words wisely. Facts also matter. If you take care to traffic only in real things, you…
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‘Believe the Autocrat’
Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to reach for a rationalization. This will happen often: humans seem to have evolved to practice denial when confronted publicly with the unacceptable. Back in the 1930s,…
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A Letter From My Daughters, and a Letter to Myself
It’s shortly after 5 am PT. In the other room, my daughters, already awake, are writing a letter to Hillary Clinton, thanking her for inspiring them and millions of others. I am in the dining room, staring at apoplectic headlines from publications that I trust, knowing that millions of Americans in other cities don’t read…