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      The Week’s Best Longreads for August 24, 2013

      Longreads

      From the NRA’s secret database to missionaries trying to save Massachusetts—the best journalism this week.

      David Sessions

      Updated Jul. 11, 2017 8:46PM ET / Published Aug. 24, 2013 9:57AM ET 

      How The NRA Built A Massive Secret Database Of Gun Owners

      Steve Friess, BuzzFeed

      While the National Rifle Association publicly fights against a national gun registry, the organization has gone to incredible lengths to compile information on “tens of millions” of gun owners—without their consent.

      Roger Federer Can Still Get His Game Face On

      Michael Steinberger, The New York Times Magazine

      But has tennis left him behind?

      Ripping Off Young America

      Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

      The federal government has made it easier than ever to borrow money for higher education, saddling a generation with crushing debts and inflating a bubble that could bring down the economy.

      On a Mission to Save Godless Massachusetts

      Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, Globe Magazine

      Evangelical Christians are arriving from Texas and elsewhere to take back a blue state.

      Who is Ali Khamenei?

      Akbar Ganji, Foreign Affairs

      The worldview of Iran’s supreme leader.

      After Bloomberg

      Ken Auletta, The New Yorker

      What kind of New York is the controversial mayor leaving his predecessor?

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