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The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change. I went to a private planning meeting and took notes.
The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change. I went to a private planning meeting and took notes.
Malcolm Harris New York Mar 2020 30min Permalink
Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now in the hands of giant companies—squeezing renters for revenue and putting the American dream even further out of reach.
Francesca Mari New York Times Magazine Mar 2020 40min Permalink
How Rebekah Neumann’s search For enlightenment fueled WeWork’s collapse.
Moe Tkacik Bustle Mar 2020 30min Permalink
How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders.
Maddy Varner, Aaron Sankin The Markup Feb 2020 30min Permalink
Why do corporations speak the way they do?
Molly Young Vulture Feb 2020 20min Permalink
How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.
Joshua Hunt The Nation Feb 2020 15min Permalink
Carrying babies for foreign couples was once touted as a win-win for everyone involved. Indian women, however, were often left with little to show for their efforts.
Abby Rabinowitz VQR Apr 2016 25min Permalink
On the pseudo-brands of Amazon.
John Herrman New York Times Feb 2020 15min Permalink
There has never been a better time to commit financial crimes.
Michael Hobbes Highline Feb 2020 Permalink
The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.
David Enrich New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 30min Permalink
As medical researchers scramble to find the source of a fatal lung disease and officials seek to ban the sale of vape pens, our correspondent set out to separate reality from hysteria.
Amanda Chicago Lewis California Sunday Jan 2020 40min Permalink
Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.
Ed Caesar The New Yorker Jan 2020 40min Permalink
Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.
Justin Nobel Rolling Stone Jan 2020 35min Permalink
Faith Hope Consolo had the entire press fooled, including us. Then a message came in.
Julie Satow New York Times Jan 2020 15min Permalink
In an age of historic disparity, Abigail Disney and the Patriotic Millionaires take on income inequality.
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Dec 2019 35min Permalink
History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.
Wil S. Hylton The Atlantic Dec 2019 30min Permalink
The author, who works remotely, and her evolving relationship with her physical representation at the office: “an iPad on a stick on a Segway-like base.”
Emily Dreyfuss Wired Sep 2015 15min Permalink
The Salesforce founder has donated a fortune to right capitalism’s wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can’t we just be grateful?
Chris Colin Wired Dec 2019 30min Permalink
How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.
Del Quentin Wilber Bloomberg Business Feb 2016 15min Permalink
Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed.
Will Evans Reveal Nov 2019 25min Permalink
How Texas Instruments monopolized math class.
Maya Kosoff Gen Nov 2019 25min Permalink
Kross cuts through the moans and shouts from off-camera: “Someone go wide!” She’s telling the cameramen to make sure they are adequately capturing the reverse gang bang of Ferrara—the love of her life.
Tracy Clark-Flory Jezebel Oct 2019 30min Permalink
“Economic theory as it exists increasingly resembles a shed full of broken tools.”
David Graeber New York Review of Books Nov 2019 20min Permalink
A profile of the Poo-Pourri creator.
Carina Chocano New Yorker Nov 2019 20min Permalink
How the tiny town of Roundup, Montana became a hub in Amazon’s supply chain.
Josh Dzieza The Verge Nov 2019 15min Permalink