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Did a member in a shadowy Mormon offshoot known as the Order collect a half-billion dollars in biodiesel credits his company didn’t deserve?
Jesse Hyde, David Voreacos Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2019 20min Permalink
In a nondescript office park in suburban Florida, a company you’ve never heard of is making a product that few people have ever seen. And it has $1.4 billion in funding.
Kevin Kelly Wired Apr 2016 Permalink
Megha Rajagopalan is a senior correspondent for Buzzfeed News. She won a Pulitzer for her coverage of the Xinjiang detention camps.
“It’s not so much that I talk to [the Chinese government] to get information. It’s more that I talk to them to see how they think about things and what’s important to them and what’s their view of the world. … There are so many journalists that have been thrown out of China, so there’s very few people that are able to actually have those conversations. And in the U.S., there are these seismic decisions being made about China policy, and if you don’t talk to the people that run the country, it’s a problem.”
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Jun 2021 Permalink
He is one of the most powerful people in media and has become a prominent voice in the #MeToo movement. Now six women accuse Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company.
Ronan Farrow New Yorker Jul 2018 35min Permalink
On frozen dumplings, industrial freezers, and what the future could hold after China’s burgeoning refrigeration boom.
Nicola Twilley New York Times Magazine Jul 2014 20min Permalink
He left China at 10 and would never see his mother again. He lived in extreme poverty once he arrived in America. He found his calling in art, became the creative force behind one of Disney’s iconic films, but didn’t get recognition for his brilliance until late in his life, when in addition to painting and illustrating he began to make fantastical kites.
Margalit Fox New York Times Dec 2016 10min Permalink
How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.
Ian Parker New Yorker Feb 2015 Permalink
A PR company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.
Ed Caesar New Yorker Jun 2018 35min Permalink
On A Star Is Born and the celebrity industrial complex.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Sep 2018 20min Permalink
Inside a transport service for “problem” children:
In his first year of business, [Rick Strawn] escorted eight teens to behavior modification schools. Since then, his company has transported more than 700 kids between the ages of 8 and 17.
Nadya Labi Legal Affairs Jul 2004 30min Permalink
The ride-share company has 250 lobbyists and 29 lobbying firms registered in capitols around the nation, a third more than Wal-Mart Stores. Among other things.
Karen Weise Businessweek Jun 2015 15min Permalink
A survey on where the industry is headed. Says one agency veteran: “Marketing in the future is like sex. Only the losers will have to pay for it.”
Danielle Sacks Fast Company Nov 2010 Permalink
Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry—infiltrating the national oil company, selling stolen fuel on the black market and engaging in open war with the military.
Seth Harp Rolling Stone Sep 2018 30min Permalink
Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs for coal ash.
Max Blau Georgia Health News, ProPublica Mar 2021 40min Permalink
How the Google co-founder, forced out of a leadership role in 2001, came back to run the company 10 years later.
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider Apr 2014 40min Permalink
Inside the lives of students at an elite Beijing high school in the months leading up to gaokao, literally “high test,” the national university admittance exam.
April Rabkin Fast Company Aug 2011 15min Permalink
He made billions. He lost billions. He was fired as CEO of the company he created. And on March 2, just hours after he was accused of rigging oil deals, he died in a one-car crash.
Bryan Gruley, Joe Carroll, Asjylyn Loder Businessweek Mar 2016 15min Permalink
John C. Favalora is a sallow old man who looks like the corpse of Dom Deluise. He likes attractive young men to sit on his lap and allegedly treats them to trips in the Florida Keys. He was, until recently, part owner of a company that makes "all natural" boner-inducing beverages. He's also the Archbishop Emeritus of Miami.
Brandon K. Thorp Gawker Jul 2011 25min Permalink
Shai Agassi had nearly $1 billion in funding and a dream to replace gas guzzlers with electric cars. All he was missing was a plan.
Max Chafkin Fast Company Apr 2014 35min Permalink
A profile Mark Pincus, the founder and C.E.O. of Zynga—the company that created FarmVille, CityVille, and Zynga Poker, the most popular online poker game in the world.
Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Jun 2011 15min Permalink
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
Peter Hessler is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
“It may have helped that I didn’t have a lot of ideas about China. You know, it was sort of a blank slate in my mind. …I wasn’t a reporter when I went to Fuling, but I was thinking like a reporter or even like a sociologist: try to respond to what you see and what you hear, and not be too oriented by things you’ve heard from others or things you may have read. Be open to new perceptions of the place or of the people.”
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Sep 2015 Permalink
Sarma Melngailis owned a booming vegan restaurant beloved by celebrities. But after systematically draining the company bank account, she and her husband skipped town. Last week, after nearly a year on the lam, they were arrested in a Fairfield Inn & Suites in Tennessee. The cops found them after they ordered Domino’s.
Dana Schuster, Georgett Roberts New York Post May 2016 Permalink
Attracted by lax regulations, industrial agriculture has descended on a remote valley, depleting its aquifer — leaving many residents with no water at all.
Noah Gallagher Shannon New York Times Magazine Jul 2018 25min Permalink
Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.
Christopher R. Beha Harper's Oct 2011 Permalink