I'll get the ball rolling with "The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing"

https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933...

From my bookmarks:

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...

"The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits" http://grantland.com/features/the-rise-of-nintendo-video-gam...

Also a book on the history of Word Perfect showing how a software company was run in the 80s http://www.wordplace.com/ap/

Without question, it would be Masters of Love via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/happily-ev...

It may be a bit too short to qualify as long form, but boy, was it an eye-opener for me.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10881213/The-comi... "The coming digital anarchy "

A four part series

http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-camps/