Your weekend long reads

Ashley Shaffer | Paste BN

Good morning, Short Listers!

These are the long reads we couldn't stop talking about this week:

American colleges 101: This Harvard grad made getting into the Ivy Leagues a million-dollar business: A look inside the lucrative world of college consulting.
Plastic surgery malpractice: When surgery goes wrong, patients are left to pay for uninsured doctors’ mistakes, a Paste BN investigation found.
Secretive. One-sided. Self-policing. The wiretap of a former Trump campaign advisor hints at deep problems with FBI surveillance.