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The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Nov 24-30, 2014

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Uber’s ability to annoy, a transgender crime-scene cleaner and cheerleading for Christ. The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week.

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How to Get Away with Uber

By Bobbie Johnson, Matter

What exactly is it about the controversy-baiting, aggressive, indispensable taxi app that pisses so many people off? (Hint: It’s not the bullying, the bro culture, or the surge pricing.)

The Secret Life Of A Crime Scene Cleaner

By Sarah Krasnostein, Narratively

How a transgender Australian found her niche cleaning up after murders, suicides, and unimaginable filth of endless variation.

Cheerleaders For Christ

By Jia Tolentino, Adult

Clear drinks, full uniform, can't lose.

Man on Fire

By Michael Hall, Texas Monthly

For his entire life, Charles Moore sought to heed God’s call to change a broken world—fighting passionately for civil rights, helping the poor, and feeding the hungry. Until one day, in a desolate parking lot in grand saline, he decided he hadn’t done enough.

Platinum: A Singer Visits a Women’s Prison

By Thao Nguyen, Longreads

“You have to carry your truth into reality.”

A Massacre in the Family

By Michael Allen, Wall Street Journal

My Great-Great-Grandfather and an American Indian Tragedy

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