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Publications

Businessweek

Business Crime

Inside the Takedown That Put Carlos Ghosn in Jail

He never saw it coming.

Matthew Campbell, Kae Inoue, Jie Ma, Ania Nussbaum Businessweek Jan 2018 25min Permalink

Business

The Predatory Lending Machine Crushing Small Businesses Across America

How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine.

Zachary R. Mider, Zeke Faux Businessweek Nov 2018 20min Permalink

Business Crime

The War Inside 7-Eleven

The company has been battling its store owners for years, using tactics that include planting hidden cameras and and tailing franchisees in unmarked vehicles. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities.

Lauren Etter, Michael Smith Businessweek Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Crime

The Get-Rich-Quick Scheme That Almost Killed a German Soccer Team

An electrician’s odd plot to make $607,933.50.

Thomas Rogers Businessweek Oct 2018 10min Permalink

Business Crime

The Unsolved Murder of an Unusual Billionaire

Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.

Matthew Campbell Businessweek Oct 2018 30min Permalink

Best Article Business Tech

Palantir Knows Everything About You

“All human relations are a matter of record, ready to be revealed by a clever algorithm. Everyone is a spidergram now.”

Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, Jordan Robertson Businessweek Apr 2018 20min Permalink

Business Tech

Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous

The true believers won’t stop until they’ve remade the world.

Paul Ford Businessweek Mar 2018 10min Permalink

Business Politics

How Defective Guns Became the Only Product That Can’t Be Recalled

Taurus sold almost a million handguns that can potentially fire without anyone pulling the trigger. The government won’t fix the problem. The NRA is silent.

Michael Smith, Polly Mosendz Businessweek Feb 2018 15min Permalink

Inside North Korea's Hacker Army

The lives of programmers sent abroad by Pyongyang to make money by any means necessary.

Sam Kim Businessweek Feb 2018 15min Permalink

Business

The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought

Inside the boardroom as Uber’s press nightmare unfolded.

Eric Newcomer, Brad Stone Businessweek Jan 2018 15min Permalink

Business Science

The Wonder Drug for Aging (Made From One of the Deadliest Toxins on Earth)

Inside the empire of Botox.

Cynthia Koons Businessweek Oct 2017 15min Permalink

Politics Movies & TV

The Remaking of Donald Trump

With The Apprentice, Trump rose to a level of popularity with minorities that the GOP could only dream of. Then he torched it all to prepare for a hard-right run at the presidency.

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Excerpted from The Devil’s Bargain

Joshua Green Businessweek Jun 2017 20min Permalink

Business Crime

What an Immigrant Murder in Kansas Says About America

Olathe, Kansas, became a global magnet for tech talent, thanks to plentiful jobs, cheap housing, and good schools. Then someone opened fire on a pair of Indian-born engineers.

Romesh Ratnesar Businessweek May 2017 15min Permalink

Business Religion

What Would Jesus Disrupt?

Inside a megachurch started by Procter & Gamble brand managers.

Mya Frazier Businessweek Apr 2017 15min Permalink

Business Sports Media

ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They’re Not Really Into It

In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.

Ira Boudway, Max Chafkin Businessweek Mar 2017 30min Permalink

Business

Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom

Cheap wages, little training, and crushed limbs.

Peter Waldman Businessweek Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Crime

Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm

Thomas Hargrove is building software to identify trends in unsolved murders that can detect serial killers that police never knew existed.

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Robert Kolker on the Longform Podcast.

Robert Kolker Businessweek Feb 2017 15min Permalink

Business Crime

How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50 Million Fortune Vanished

It took Nav Sarao a long time to accept that he might have been scammed out of $50 million.

Liam Vaughn Businessweek Feb 2017 20min Permalink

Business

The High-Cost, High-Risk World of Modern Pet Care

How the veterinary industry went corporate.

Jason Clenfield Businessweek Jan 2017 15min Permalink

Politics Media

This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America

A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.

Joshua Green Businessweek Oct 2015 25min Permalink

Politics

Inside the Trump Bunker, With 12 Days to Go

Project Alamo, Trump’s digital marketing and media operation, is building a base for his post-election future.

Joshua Green, Sasha Issenberg Businessweek Oct 2016 20min Permalink

Business Crime Food

How Hampton Creek Sold Silicon Valley on a Fake-Mayo Miracle

With Just Mayo, Josh Tetrick wanted to build the first sustainable-food unicorn. He’ll need to fend off the feds first.

Peter Waldman, Ellen Huet, Olivia Zaleski Businessweek Sep 2016 20min Permalink

Crime

It's Not Spying If They're Always Watching

Uncovering Baltimore’s secret aerial surveillance program.

Monte Reel Businessweek Aug 2016 20min Permalink

Politics Tech World

Confessions of a Political Hacker

How Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections across Latin America.

Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, Andrew Willis Businessweek Mar 2016 20min Permalink

Business

The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money

Making bio-diesel is hard. Getting paid $100 million to not make it is surprisingly easy.

Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Bryan Gruley, Mario Parker Businessweek Jul 2016 15min Permalink

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