https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933...
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/happily-ev...
This was on hn a while ago and spurred some really interesting discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7714400 http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/logic-of-buddhist-philoso...
Also a book on the history of Word Perfect showing how a software company was run in the 80s http://www.wordplace.com/ap/
It may be a bit too short to qualify as long form, but boy, was it an eye-opener for me.
http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-camps/
https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933...