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Tag: USA

All longform pieces tagged with #usa on The Slow Scroll

The Mountain West’s Mega-McMansion Problem
The Nation • 27 Jan 2025 • ~4650 words

The rich have turned the region into “ultra-exclusive enclaves,” creating hazardous living conditions for everyone else.

What Happened When America Emptied Its Youth Prisons
New York Times • 28 Jan 2025 • ~6200 words

Lessons from a radical 20-year experiment and a quiet triumph of public policy.

The Lost City
Intelligencer • 27 Jan 2025 • ~6450 words

City workers and celebrities, teachers and tycoons talk about what they lost in the Los Angeles fires — and how they’ll rebuild.

A Montana town is waging war on its unhoused citizens. One shelter is fighting back
The Guardian • 27 Jan 2025 • ~3050 words

Kalispell, Montana, has blocked residents from using the bus and parks, but a federal injunction has stopped it from closing a shelter.

They Saved 54 Horses From the L.A. Fires — But Lost Their Farm
Rolling Stone • 27 Jan 2025 • ~2173 words

Cha Cha Jago Levinson’s life’s work, Jigsaw Farms, was consumed in the blaze that ravaged the Pacific Palisades.

☆Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles Inferno
The New Yorker • 26 Jan 2025 • ~4400 words

A reporter embeds with wildland firefighters during one of the deadliest blazes in California history.

Nevada’s Lithium Could Help Save the Earth. But What Happens to Nevada?
New York Times • 24 Jan 2025 • ~4250 words

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too great.

☆Being an Asian Southerner Means Being an Anomaly, Squared
Electric Literature • 23 Jan 2025 • ~6100 words

This is how I know an Asian South exists: I miss it