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From the archive: Is society coming apart?

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2021: Despite Thatcher and Reagan’s best efforts, there is and has always been such a thing as society. The question is not whether it exists, but what shape it must take in a post-pandemic world By Jill Lepore. Read by Kelly Burke. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own …

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  From the archive: What lies beneath: the truth about France’s top serial k…

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  ‘Why would he take such a risk?’ How a famous Chinese author befriended hi…

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  The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town

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  From the archive: Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untang…

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  From acid house to ancient rites: Jeremy Deller’s enormous, collaborative,…

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  What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther C…

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  From the archive: The last phone boxes: broken glass, cider cans and – ama…

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  Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: d…

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  In search of the South Pacific fugitive who crowned himself king

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  From the archive: ‘I pleaded for help. No one wrote back’: the pain of wat…

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  The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denma…

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  Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’…

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  From the archive: The great betrayal: how the Hillsborough families were f…

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  My mother, the racist

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  The reluctant collaborator: surviving Syria’s brutal civil war – and its a…