Longform Reading Weekly Pick

2026-06-15

Five Pieces Worth Your Time This Week

This week: Heidi Blake's massive New Yorker investigation into how Andrew Tate built a criminal trafficking enterprise and became a political force; Idrees Kahloon in The Atlantic on how Britain became as poor as Mississippi through sequential self-sabotage; Caity Weaver's hilarious and tender essay about garage sales and what Americans do with their excess; the Guardian's deep portrait of Claudia Sheinbaum, the world's most popular left-wing leader; and Jacob Mikanowski on the barely-explored deep sea, full of creatures with no names.

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