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The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.
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The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.
Tom Philpott Mother Jones May 2016 20min Permalink
How a young Afghan trucking-company owner became spectacularly rich.
Matthieu Aikins New Yorker Feb 2016 30min Permalink
An industry responds to the recession by rebranding the carrot as anything but vegetable.
Douglas McGray Fast Company Mar 2011 10min Permalink
How YouTube went from ubiquitous to profitable; and where it goes next.
Danielle Sacks Fast Company Feb 2011 Permalink
How the media company failed to create “a safe and inclusive workplace” for women.
Emily Steel New York Times Dec 2017 15min Permalink
Indigenous water protectors face off with an oil company and police over a Minnesota pipeline.
Alleen Brown The Intercept Jul 2021 25min Permalink
How Yvon Chouinard turned his eco-conscious, anti-corporate ideals into the credo of a successful clothing company.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Sep 2016 35min Permalink
The mysterious business interests trying to patent strains and turn their company into the Monsanto of legal marijuana.
Amanda Chicago Lewis GQ Aug 2017 15min Permalink
The story of one journalist’s giant salary and why his company could no longer pay it.
Silvia Killingsworth The Awl Jan 2018 15min Permalink
On labor organizing at a Silicon Valley giant and what happens when a company loses touch with its motto of “don’t be evil.”
Beth Kowitt Fortune May 2019 20min Permalink
Decades ago, two parents sued a drug company over their newborn’s deformity—and changed courtroom science forever.
Peter Andrey Smith Undark Feb 2020 30min Permalink
After the massive success of SimCity, the company behind the game began building private simulations for corporations.
Phil Salvador The Obscuritory May 2020 55min Permalink
A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us.
Elif Batuman New Yorker Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Big banks entrusted money to an armored truck company GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions.
Bethany Barnes Tampa Bay Times Oct 2020 25min Permalink
It’s a multilevel marketing company called AdvoCare. Or maybe it’s a pyramid scheme.
Mina Kimes ESPN the Magazine Mar 2016 20min Permalink
“Jon Corzine had never had anything to do with the futures business, had never run a public company, and hadn’t worked on Wall Street for a decade. His time there had ended badly. But by any reasonable standard, the former Goldman chief seemed almost embarrassingly overqualified. Says Flowers: ‘It seemed like we had more CEO than company.’”
Doris Burke, Peter Elkind Fortune Jun 2012 50min Permalink
Mark Bowden is a journalist and the author of 13 books, including Black Hawk Down and his latest, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam.
“My goal is never to condemn someone that I’m writing about. It’s always to understand them. And that, to me, is far more interesting than passing judgment on them. I want you to read about Che Thi Mung, an 18-year-old village girl, who was selling hats on corners in Hue in the daytime and going home and sharpening spikes to go into booby traps to try and kill American soldiers and ARVN soldiers in the evening. I want to understand why she would do that, why she would be so motivated to do that. And I think I did.”
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What happens after your goofy little company gets swallowed by Amazon.
Tim Rogers D Magazine Jun 2014 15min Permalink
How a major American company helped bring Charles Taylor to power in Liberia.
T. Christian Miller, Jonathan Jones ProPublica Nov 2014 10min Permalink
How the social networks that popped up in Facebook’s absence—the site is not available behind the Great Firewall—are changing Chinese culture.
April Rabkin Fast Company Feb 2011 Permalink
Chipotle once fed the equivalent of the population of Philadelphia every day. Then the E. coli outbreak happened.
Austin Carr Fast Company Oct 2016 1h5min Permalink
Business Crime Tech World Movies & TV
What really happened at Sony Pictures during the cyberattack – and questions about whether the company should have seen it coming.
Peter Elkind Fortune Jun 2015 55min Permalink
A profile of the Whole Foods CEO, who, despite a rash of problems with his company, firmly believes he’s seen the future of American business.
Beth Kowitt Fortune Aug 2015 20min Permalink
A deep dive into what ails the media company.
“Success for us will be determined by our ability to move faster than everyone else in this space.”
Robert Safian Fast Company Aug 2018 25min Permalink