Recommended Writing
All longform pieces recommended on The Slow Scroll
During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat in the boneyard, waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier.
Jimmy Maher writes about the story of the video game Fallout, its place in the computer role playing game resurgency of late 90s, and what made it such a unique game.
Ruby Franke was a social media star who made viral videos about her six children and perfect-seeming life – until she was jailed for child abuse. Now her eldest daughter Shari is telling her side of the story
An oil trader and an Old Etonian with a genius for PR, was Justin Welby the worst Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas Arundel?
Before the Ukraine war, Wildberries was a giant of e-commerce. Now it’s caught up in a medieval blood feud