The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, July 19, 2014
From a school forced by a brutal testing regime into a cheating scandal to a 14-hour trip to T.G.I Friday’s, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week.
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Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker
In the era of high-stakes testing, a struggling school made a shocking choice.
My Life With Piper: From Big House to Small Screen
Larry Smith, Matter
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The other true story behind Orange is the New Black.
Tiffany Stanley, National Journal
Richard Land’s fall and the end of the religious right.
Esther Kaplan, Virginia Quarterly Review
The bitter truth behind the gospel of productivity.
Are the Authoritarians Winning?
Michael Ignatieff, New York Review of Books
The Bearable Lightness of Being
Der Spiegel
How Germans are learning to like themselves.
My 14-Hour Search for the End of T.G.I. Friday’s Endless Appetizers
Caity Weaver, Gawker
How many mozzarella sticks do you want to eat for $10?
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