Put aside tweets, status updates, and texts, and take in the best long form articles from 2012

Courtesy of Byliner’s Conor Friedersdorf, a curated list of 102 fantastic non-fiction pieces from 2012.

There are, of course, worthy pieces of writing and reporting that escaped my attention in 2012, but I can assure you that all of the 102 stories listed below deserve wider attention—as do the authors of these stories. The featured bylines are linked to the authors’ Byliner writer pages, which makes it easy to discover and read more of their excellent work.