Long Lead
banner
longlead.com
Long Lead
@longlead.com
A story studio publishing in-depth journalism without compromise. Latest feature: THE AGE OF INCARCERATION https://age-of-incarceration.longlead.com/
Takei was a young boy when he and his family were forced to live in camps run by the U.S. government at Rohwer and Tule Lake during World War II.

He shares his memories of life in the camps in Long Lead's newest feature, THE AGE OF INCARCERATION. Read it now: age-of-incarceration.longlead.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
For DEPTH PERCEPTION, Brin-Jonathan Butler talks with Cohen about how the veteran journalist approached the story despite not being a crime writer, which is now the subject of his 14th book, "Murder In the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story."

Read now to learn more.
Graydon Carter wanted a story on Jennifer Dulos's murder. Rich Cohen turned him down—then submitted a six-parter
The veteran journalist and author explains why his 14th book, Murder in the Dollhouse, marks his first foray into true crime.
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For Cohen, who shares a similar background with Dulos, he was "interested in Jennifer Farber Dulos as a person and how she got herself in this situation where she was basically at the mercy of a psychopath."
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Read HOME OF THE BRAVE today to get the full story and learn how disabled veterans are fighting the U.S. government for housing: homeofthebrave.longlead.com
Home of the Brave: Enduring the VA’s Homeless Veteran Crisis
A centuries-spanning land war in LA between the U.S. government, local forces, and disabled veterans has left thousands of heroes without a place to call home.
homeofthebrave.longlead.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
To learn more about the property and why it is at the middle of a centuries-long fight, read Long Lead's multimedia feature, HOME OF THE BRAVE: homeofthebrave.longlead.com
Home of the Brave: Enduring the VA’s Homeless Veteran Crisis
A centuries-spanning land war in LA between the U.S. government, local forces, and disabled veterans has left thousands of heroes without a place to call home.
homeofthebrave.longlead.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Subscribe to Long Lead's HOME OF THE BRAVE newsletter to stay up to date with veterans' ongoing fight against the U.S. government for housing at the West Los Angeles VA: homeofthebrave.substack.com
Home of the Brave — a Long Lead Newsletter | Substack
Daily court briefings and updates from Powers v. McDonough, the disabled veterans’ class action lawsuit against the federal government seeking permanent housing on the West LA VA campus. Click to read...
homeofthebrave.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The scale of the new rents proposed by the VA are massively higher than anything proposed or agreed to previously. The CMR notes the combined total of the new rents is $48,461,000, annually.

As of September 2024, the VA received a combined total of $1,719,360.84 in annual rent from the lessees.
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The adjusted rates appear in a Congressionally Mandated Report (CMR) that's a requirement of the West LA Leasing Act of 2016 and is “informed by the (Trump administration's) executive order (Establishing a National Center for Warrior Independence)."
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The veterans' fight at the West LA VA campus is ongoing and Long Lead is keeping you up to date with the court battle as it continues to evolve.

Get updates by subscribing to our HOME OF THE BRAVE newsletter: homeofthebrave.substack.com
Home of the Brave — a Long Lead Newsletter | Substack
Daily court briefings and updates from Powers v. McDonough, the disabled veterans’ class action lawsuit against the federal government seeking permanent housing on the West LA VA campus. Click to…
homeofthebrave.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's the focus of Long Lead's Webby-award-winning feature HOME OF THE BRAVE, which tells the full story of the West Los Angeles VA — from the property's founding to the legal fight to take it back.

Read it now to learn more:
homeofthebrave.longlead.com
Home of the Brave: Enduring the VA’s Homeless Veteran Crisis
A centuries-spanning land war in LA between the U.S. government, local forces, and disabled veterans has left thousands of heroes without a place to call home.
homeofthebrave.longlead.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The West Los Angeles VA campus is a 388-acre property that was meant to house disabled vets — but it's also now home to a centuries-spanning land war between the U.S. government, local forces, and generations of service members seeking a place to call home.

📷: Nick Ut/Getty Images
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
For DEPTH PERCEPTION, @parkermolloy.com talks with Thompson about writing "The Running Ground," the business model for The Atlantic, and what it’s like to run a major news organization when the president of the U.S. is trying to destroy outlets that report news he doesn’t like.

Read now.
Nicholas Thompson has "mixed feelings" on AI
The journalist and Atlantic CEO used "the best editorial tool we’ve ever had" to write his book. On the other hand, "it’s also a force that could completely obliterate us."
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Listen to all four of the Signal-Awards winning show today, wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
The End of the World as We Know It
Podcast Episode · Long Shadow · S4 E1 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Nine survivors of the incarceration camps share their stories, reflecting on their experience of a childhood spent in detention. They share stories not just of injustice, but of resilience.

Read Long Lead's latest feature, THE AGE OF INCARCERATION, today to learn more,
Japanese American Incarceration Survivors Remember What the US Forgot
During WWII, President Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act and incarcerated 125,000 Japanese Americans. Eighty years later, some of the camps’ last survivors reflect on lives scarred by injustice.
age-of-incarceration.longlead.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's a part of U.S. history that is often overlooked. To this day, no proper academic study has been dedicated to determining the true amount of losses Japanese American families experienced from the force removal of their communities.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM