A Village Wins the Lottery

One of my favorite things as a reader is to see a short, newsy story reported in the newspaper turn into a nice, in-depth magazine feature a year or so later (I've mentioned this before, but one of the things I do outside of this blog is work at Longreads).

She Left Her Country to Look for a Job

This post from a father in Spain about watching his daughter get fed up with applying for jobs in a country where the unemployment rate for young people is 50 percent and being forced to look for opportunities abroad is very good.