Mark Armstrong
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Seattle, WA, United States
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Past articles by Mark:
Meet the 14-Year-Old Dancer Who Invented The Renegade
A ninth grader's creation explodes on TikTok, without acknowledgement or credit. → Read More
Dear Chief Justice John Roberts: Our Country Has Not Changed
The president's failure to condemn Charlottesville is directly linked to voter suppression in the United States. → Read More
Choire Sicha’s New Role: Editor of The New York Times Styles Section
People love him. And that's what makes him a great editor. → Read More
Meet ‘The Mooch,’ Your New White House Communications Director
The money manager who once trashed Trump now has a job in the White House. → Read More
California’s Housing Crisis Is About Jobs, Not Houses
It's not the pace of housing construction. It's that the world's most successful companies are gathered in a small number of cities. → Read More
‘Many Immigrant Stories and Refugee Stories Need to Be Understood as War Stories’
Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on understanding why refugees have come to the U.S. → Read More
Please Watch This Video Showing the Unfathomable Cruelty of U.S. Immigration Policy
The willful dismissal of our own humanity and common sense lies at the core of U.S. immigration policy. → Read More
Garrett Graff Joins Longreads to Cover Border Patrol and Government Policy
Graff will cover border security and immigration, federal law enforcement, and the mechanics of how government works. → Read More
Betsy DeVos’s Cynical Defense of the Trump Education Budget Cuts
The Education Secretary makes the case before Congress that “less money” becomes “more latitude.” → Read More
‘Just Pure Greed’: A Journalist Exposes Jared Kushner’s Baltimore Housing History
Jared, meet Kamiia Warren. Your company nearly ruined her life. ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis has an infuriating new story in The New York Times Magazine on a company called JK2 Westminster L.L… → Read More
Alexandra Petri Is The Only Op-Ed Columnist America Needs Right Now
She is the light in the darkness. → Read More
Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison
INTERVIEWER You mentioned getting permission to write. Who gave it to you? MORRISON No one. What I needed permission to do was to succeed at it. I never signed a contract until the book was finished because I didn’t want it to be homework. A contract meant somebody was waiting for it, that I had… → Read More
John Oliver on the Media’s Struggle to Confront Disinformation
"It's very dangerous to keep the old campaign architecture around with this presidency." → Read More
‘Elephant and Piggie’ Author Mo Willems on the Importance of Teaching Kids to Fail
The beloved author confronts some critical questions. → Read More
Robert Caro on Understanding a President Through the Rooms He Occupied
There are facts in journalism, but there are other truths hidden in the room. In this 2016 Paris Review interview with James Santel, Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson, gives a masterclass on how to report on a subject's behavior, his environment, his breath, and the cushiness… → Read More
What the Boston Globe’s ‘Make It Stop’ Front Page Says About Moral Outrage in Journalism
Nothing is normal right now, so it makes perfect sense that journalists should reconsider what objectivity means in 2017. → Read More
Junot Díaz on What It’s Like to Be an Immigrant in America
“Who am I and how did I get here? The way I was doing it was through books.” → Read More
Just One of Millions of American Immigrant Stories
This is me, just as I was about to immigrate to the United States. Before 1965, it was legal to ban immigrants based on nationality, and Asians in particular were targeted. It was actually referred to as an Asiatic Barred Zone. Then, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, banning discrimination on the… → Read More
‘Continue Panicking’: Samantha Bee’s Interview with Journalist Masha Gessen
"Really it's the nuclear holocaust I'm worried about." One of my essay selections for Longreads Best of 2016 was by Masha Gessen, the Russian-American journalist and author of 2016's The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, whose "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" in the New York Review of Books revealed in… → Read More
‘Pain, Fatigue and My New Normal’
A travel writer confronts her battle with chronic pain. → Read More