The Daily Beast's Best Longreads - August 9-15
From the culture of rape promoted by ISIS to the women left by their recently out husbands, this week's best in longform journalism.
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Chadwick Moore - Out Magazine
Many cheer the newfound courage for people who feel they can now come out. Meet the women who are left to start over after their husbands come out.
Inside the Crazy Back-Channel Negotiations That Revolutionized Our Relationship with Cuba
Peter Kornbluh & William M. Leogrande - Mother Jones
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Secret messages, a pope, and artificial insemination? Things got pretty wild in the historic negotiations about ending the frosty relations between the U.S. and Cuba.
ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
Rukmini Callimachi - the New York Times
Rape has not only been codified by ISIS as a permissible act, but has turned into a recruiting tool.
Paul A Jargowsky - The Century Foundation
Decades of bad decisions and planning have exacerbated and hardened already divided racial lines in U.S. urban centers.
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