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Writers

Sheelah Kolhatkar

Crime

How an Adoption Broker Cashed In on Prospective Parents’ Dreams

In just a few years, a Michigan woman took in millions of dollars, faking adoptions and ruining families’ lives along the way.

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Oct 2021 Permalink

Business

What Happens When Investment Firms Acquire Trailer Parks

The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Crime

In Too Deep

Did an affair with a Russian agent push Overstock’s Patrick Byrne too far?

Sheelah Kolhatkar The New Yorker Dec 2020 30min Permalink

Business

The Ultra-Wealthy Who Argue That They Should Be Paying Higher Taxes

In an age of historic disparity, Abigail Disney and the Patriotic Millionaires take on income inequality.

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Dec 2019 35min Permalink

Business Crime Health

The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing

Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Jan 2019 35min Permalink

Business

Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor

How an activist investor does business (and ruins lives).

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Aug 2018 40min Permalink

Tech

The Tech Industry’s Gender-Discrimination Problem

The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Nov 2017 35min Permalink

Business

Financiers Fight Over the American Dream

Bill Ackman’s hedge fund planned to make a fortune while doing good by exposing Herbalife as a scheme that preyed upon and lied to the poor. How one of the highest profile stock shorts in market history went awry.

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Feb 2017 35min Permalink

Sex Media

Cheating, Incorporated

On the adultery website AshleyMadison.com.

Sheelah Kolhatkar Businessweek Feb 2011 20min Permalink

Business Tech

The Gaming Industry's Greatest Adversary Is Just Getting Started

A profile of Anita Sarkeesian, who has recieved death threats as she exposes misogyny in the $25 billion video game industry.

Sheelah Kolhatkar Businessweek Nov 2014 15min Permalink

Arts Media

The News Merchant

A profile of Larry Garrison, the man who “gets paid to bring tabloid stories to TV news programs.”

Sheelah Kolhatkar The Atlantic Sep 2010 40min Permalink