HuffPost Must Reads

Original reporting + longform journalism, + behind-the-scenes of how it's made. Newsletter: From @nickbaumann + @samanthastorey.

[HuffPost Must Reads @MustReads]

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[Nick Baumann @NickBaumann]

At the end of 2018, @mattbooshell quit a cushy 9-to-5 job that he had been at for two years. Here's what happened next: https://t.co/DXOj6OHbsz via @HuffPostPol

[Akbar Shahid Ahmed @AkbarSAhmed]

Trump has used his veto 6 times. 4 of those were to protect Saudi Arabia. Congress could've made him again choose between an embarrassing veto or letting MBS face consequences. Republican+Democratic political calculations & Jared Kushner got in the way.

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[Matthew Anderson @MattAndersonNYT]

This is such a sad story – an extreme case, but the truth is the trade is full of freelancers with no proper training and no idea what they are doing https://t.co/QWW03DSv1a

[HuffPost Must Reads @MustReads]

Christopher Allen reported from some of the most dangerous places in the world. Who was looking out for him? https://t.co/hqe1jpOJ05

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

New: Huge federal review of facial-recognition systems finds that white people get more accurate searches than everyone else. With some algorithms, Asian and African American people were *up to 100 times* more likely to be falsely identified than white men https://t.co/QFA760RIV3

[Akbar Shahid Ahmed @AkbarSAhmed]

This is a beautiful, thoughtful piece that I hope helps a lot of folks feel less alone & some other folks do a bit more reflection:

https://t.co/Sa7S7sVHg8 via @scaachi

[Rob Zacny @RobZacny]

A few years ago, Gabriel started sending me polite but insistent emails suggesting that maybe, *maybe* I had a lot of unquestioned colonial assumptions underlying my thinking. Finally asked him to just do it in essay form. https://t.co/dcxSKGmTZ5

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In the aftermath of his lung-cancer diagnosis, Peter Schjeldahl assumed the persona of the Dying Man, which he found to be a handy mask. https://t.co/uF5POFl6gq

[Sarah Kliff @sarahkliff]

The I.R.S. accidentally conducted an experiment on 3.9 million Americans — and, in the process, provided the best evidence yet that health insurance saves lives.

https://t.co/BvHn6c0V9g

[Joshua Yaffa @yaffaesque]

This week's @NewYorker has an excerpt from my forthcoming book "Between Two Fires"--a profile of Konstantin Ernst, head of Channel One, a complicated and multisided figure, who combines "cosmopolitan savviness with ultimate subservience to the state." https://t.co/yfNfLLYxkC

[ProPublica @propublica]

NEW: We obtained video inside the Border Patrol holding cell where 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez died last May. The video does not match the Border Patrol's account of his death.

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

As president, Pete Buttigieg wants to give 25 percent of federal contracts to minorities. As mayor, he gave 3 percent. https://t.co/e3hB3XhnbO by @akela_lacy

[Michael Arceneaux @youngsinick]

In the past year, there have been 596 media mentions of Pete Buttigieg being a Rhodes scholar. But Cory Booker is also a Rhodes scholar. Why has his scholarship been mentioned only 79 times? https://t.co/BTMRzwuFc4

[Akbar Shahid Ahmed @AkbarSAhmed]

NEW: Tulsi Gabbard is pledging to reveal “all the info” about 9/11, hinting at a conspiracy. The 28 pages have been out for 3 years. But disingenuous or no, the ploy reflects a plan: keep trying to merge lefties with conspiracy theorists, Islamophobes & co https://t.co/Oe9jsBNcyq

[Melissa Brown @itsmelissabrown]

This story is one of the most disturbing I've read in recent memory. Excellent work from @Sophia_MJones @FullerProject on the horrors of "virginity testing," which is rarely acknowledged publicly in the U.S. https://t.co/v1z2MWrwp6

[allie conti @allie_conti]

i wrote the most thorough review of an airbnb host ever
https://t.co/EdSu7e2Gjh

[Brittny Mejia @brittny_mejia]

A thread: Getty fire: Housekeepers, gardener go to work despite the flames - Los Angeles Times https://t.co/G6UZm8bkdD

[Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy]

"Popular Information has uncovered a network of 14 large Facebook pages that exclusively promote content from The Daily Wire. None of the pages reveal their connection to The Daily Wire, and many purport to be independent media outlets." https://t.co/phn1w0vO9K

[Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 @ArthurDelaneyHP]

Read @PaulBlu on Trump's legal arguments that he is immune from oversight, noting that the president calls judicial appointees "my judges"

https://t.co/7EnnfEVU9w