Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Tracking greed (n+1 Magazine)
* Teaching through terminal illness (Stanford Magazine)
* Pivoting as a pastor (The New York Times)
* Reading poetry, closely (Slate)
* Breaking bad loading habits (The Atlantic)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Long COVID camaraderie (Men's Health)
* Breeding terrorists on Telegram @ProPublica / Frontline
* 737 Max coverup (Wired)
* Petrusich profiles Dacus (The New Yorker)
* The Irish pub as export (Smithsonian Magazine)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Propagate language, preserve culture (Noēma)
* Hip-hop hooch hustles (Taste)
* Grieving a landscape lost (Salvation South)
* A gutsy take on indigestion (VQR)
* All the feels for the forums (The Fence)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Dying to seek asylum in Canada (The Local)
* The rise of UFC @RollingStone
* Hoarding at the British Museum (The Guardian)
* A mystery at Lake Tahoe (Bay Nature)
* Dog dialogue (NYT Mag)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* An opioid town’s turnaround @nymag
* A love letter to cardboard (Places Journal)
* The chemicals animals provide (Works in Progress)
* Computerized companions @verge
* The transfiguration of Jude Law (British GQ)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* The endorphins of community @nymag
* Environmentalism and the far right @ProPublica
* Richard Gadd, post-Baby Reindeer (British GQ)
* Documenting graves as a hobby @slate
* Revolutionary bike riders in Afghanistan (Bicycling Magazine)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Ta-Nehisi Coates on necessary truths @nymag
* The rise of Russian poker bots (Bloomberg Businessweek)
* Searching for interplanetary life (The Washington Post)
* The real predator in the woods (The Bitter Southerner)
* Letting horror movies be horror movies (The Baffler)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Suffering from environmental illness at Harper's Magazine
* The double-edged sword that is social media at The Walrus
* Uncovering painful family secrets @nymag
* Jail library book treasures at Split Lip Magazine
* Cooking as a free man @sfgate

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* The preventable toll of youth football @RollingStone
* Professional whistleblowing for profit at GQ
* Survivalist hideouts for sale at The New Yorker
* The consultant con at n+1 magazine
* Discovering new bee species at @hakaimagazine

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* A Bitcoin-fuelled health nightmare at Time Magazine
* Oil's hidden history in Los Angeles at Noema Magazine
* Buying fentanyl components online at Reuters
* Preservation over profit in Alberta, Canada @thenarwhal / The Globe and Mail
* Wayfinding with hand-drawn maps at The New York Times

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* The consequences of speaking out (Bookforum)
* The violence of Sean Combs (New York Times Magazine)
* Marilyn Munroe vs. Palm Springs, CA (@slate)
* On caring for a partner with Alzheimer’s (The Guardian)
* Why pooping on the moon is crappy (Wired)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* How sickle cell patients are pressured into sterilization @STAT
* How opioid restrictions harm the terminally ill (The Baffler)
* The enshittification of bowling (The Lever)
* The sudden ubiquity of steroids (GQ)
* Why sperm is a hot commodity (The Guardian)

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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:

* Student protesters in their own words.
* Dance as freedom from disability.
* Wealth disparity in Big Sky, Montana.
* The Anthropocene as earth’s final epoch.
* Birthing a Cabbage Patch Doll.

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The Weekly Top 5 is here! In this week's edition:

• How Israel uses AI for assassination in the Gaza War
• A father reflects on his son’s development
• The rise of the term, “gaslighting”
• Toni Morrison’s expansive rejection letters
• The history of PostSecret

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In this week's Top 5 we're highlighting stories about:

- Interracial persecution in 1960s Michigan
- The cruelty bred into the chickens we eat
- How Photo Shuffle helped one man through loss
- Navigating life not knowing you’re neurodivergent
- The deep craft in forging a handmade knife

All this and the piece our audience loved most!

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In this week's Top 5 we're highlighting stories about:

- Restorative justice.
- Donated bodies allegedly sold at Harvard.
- An ER doctor who recognized her own catastrophic symptoms.
- A fascinating career pivot.
- Seven chimpanzees on the lam.

All this and the piece our audience loved the most in our weekly top 5.

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This week we're highlighting stories about:

- What it’s like to be a child of war.
- A school-shooting support group for principals.
- Being a rodeo queen in 1981.
- Becoming a woman in NYC in 1978.
- The San Francisco donut shop that hasn’t closed in over 50 years.

All this and the piece our audience loved the most in our weekly top 5.

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In this week's edition of the Top 5, we're recommending stories about:

* Catching nonagenarian Nazis at GQ.
* Trying to live forever at Time Magazine.
* The overpowering need to return home at The Sydney Review of Books.
* Forgiving your dad at The Sun Magazine.
* Finding humor in getting scammed repeatedly at Business Insider.

All this and the piece our audience loved the most in our weekly top 5.

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Poetry as a salve. What grief can teach. Dinner and theatrics in Branson, Missouri. The pleasures of learning a musical instrument and a behind-the-scenes look at The Fugitive.

All this and the piece our audience couldn't resist in this week's Top 5.

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In this week's Top 5, here's what you'll find:

-A close look into a Texas murder.
-A feature on the annotators who train language models.
-A profile of the man who rode this year’s biggest wave.
-A deep dive into the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
-An ode to U.S. Army’s new tactical bra.

All this, plus our weekly Audience Award!

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