Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Essays Editor Sari Botton, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

This week:

[00:39] “The Last Popeyes Chicken Sandwich in America” (Megan Reynolds, August 28, 2019, Jezebel)

[09:48] “Addicted to Fines.” (Mike Maciag, September 2019, Governing)

[21:35] “Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience.” (Andrew Marantz, August 19, 2019, The New Yorker)

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