The Week’s Best Longreads: The Daily Beast Picks for May 18, 2012

From the maneuvering behind the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision to the peril of Israeli democracy, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week.

Money Unlimited
Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker

How Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United decision.

Israel in Peril
David Shulman, The New York Review of Books

How the Jewish state is hastening its own demise.

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
Mat Honan, Gizmodo

What happens when a nimble startup gets gobbled up by a behemoth that doesn’t share its values.

Château Sucker
Benjamin Wallace, New York

Rare-wine collectors are savvy, competitive guys with a taste for impossible finds. The biggest hoax in history took place right under their noses.

The Cooler Me
Eric Puchner, GQ

What if you could track down your doppelgänger, the man who lived the life you imagined for yourself before you got married, had kids, and got stuck in a desk job?

The First Gay President
Andrew Sullivan, Newsweek

In one interview, Obama shifted the center on the gay-marriage debate.

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