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Drake Bennett

Business World

Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Send Cash

How Western Union does business in 2017.

Drake Bennett, Lauren Etter Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2017 20min Permalink

Crime

Man vs. Machine

A man had a gift for teaching people to beat the polygraph. Now he’s going to prison.

Drake Bennett Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2015 20min Permalink

Business

Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization

Inside the growth of intelligence contracting.

Drake Bennett, Michael Riley Businessweek Jun 2013 15min Permalink

Sports

European Soccer's Master of Match-Fixing

How a longtime gambling addict and a small band of his cronies manipulated both the game and betting exchanges from a tiny Berlin cafe, going as far as buying ownerships of teams in order to insure their failure.

Drake Bennett Businessweek Mar 2013 15min Permalink

Crime World

Alone, 'Riodoce' Covers the Drug Cartel Beat

A profile of the Mexican newsweekly, a “lone voice” in reporting on the narcos.

Drake Bennett, Michael Riley Businessweek Apr 2012 15min Permalink

Science

Dr. Ecstasy

Sasha Shulgin, a former DOW chemist who now lives a quiet life as a pensioner outside the Bay Area, is responsible for the discovery of the majority of psychedelic compounds currently known.

Drake Bennett New York Times Magazine Jan 2005 15min Permalink