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Business Tech

YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant

How proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement.

Mark Bergen Bloomberg Apr 2019 15min Permalink

Business Science

Heaven or High Water

How Miami’s real estate industry turns a blind eye to climate change.

Sarah Miller Popula Apr 2019 20min Permalink

Business

The Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education

Just a few years ago, universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here’s the little-known and absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead.

Kevin Carey Huffington Post Highline Apr 2019 30min Permalink

Business Health

The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper

Cancer surgery for $700, a heart bypass for $2,000. Pretty good, but under India’s new health-care system, it’s not good enough.

Ari Altstedter Bloomberg Businessweek Mar 2018 15min Permalink

Business

Buc-ee’s: The Path to World Domination

The making of a convenience store empire.

Eric Benson Texas Monthly Mar 2019 25min Permalink

Business Travel

Up in the Air

Inside the compulsive world of airline rewards hobbyists, who spend the bulk of their lives flying around the world for free.

Ben Wofford Rolling Stone Jul 2015 25min Permalink

Business World

The Aldi Effect: How One Discount Supermarket Transformed the Way Britain Shops

When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better.

Xan Rice Guardian Mar 2019 30min Permalink

Business

Open Office

What happens when people who have trouble fitting into a traditional workplace get one designed just for them?

Susan Dominus The New York Times Magazine Feb 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Business Tech

The Trauma Floor

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America.

Casey Newton The Verge Feb 2019 30min Permalink

Business

Out of the Shadows

Nannies and housecleaners have some of the hardest, least secure jobs in the nation. Now they’re organizing to change that.

Lauren Hilgers New York Times Magazine Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Business Tech

"She Never Looks Back": Inside Elizabeth Holmes's Chilling Final Months at Theranos

At the end, Theranos was overrun by a dog defecating in the boardroom, nearly a dozen law firms on retainer, and a C.E.O. grinning through her teeth about an implausible turnaround.

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Bilton on the Longform Podcast

Nick Bilton Vanity Fair Feb 2019 15min Permalink

Business

The Five Families of Feces

On the cutthroat dealings of the porta-potty business.

David Gauvey Herbert New York Feb 2019 15min Permalink

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 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 Health

The Bulletproof Coffee Founder Has Spent $1 Million in His Quest to Live to 180

Activities include: getting his own stem cells injected into his body every six months, taking 100 supplements a day, following a strict diet, bathing in infrared light, hanging out in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, and wearing yellow-lensed glasses every time he gets on an airplane.

Rachel Monroe Men's Health Jan 2018 15min Permalink

Business

This Is What Happens When You Try to Sue Your Boss

Millions of American workers sign away legal rights without knowing what they’re in for: Arbitration Hell.

Max Abelson Bloomberg Businessweek Jan 2019 20min Permalink

Business

Marie Kondo and the Ruthless War on Stuff

A profile of the woman who wants to declutter the world.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Jul 2016 10min Permalink

Business Politics

Two Towns Forged an Unlikely Bond. Now, ICE Is Severing the Connection

For years, rural Guatemalans traveled thousands of miles for jobs in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. A series of immigration raids is creating havoc in a town desperate for workers.

Monte Reel Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Business

How to Hand out Free Money

Alaska can show us the way.

Katia Savchuk Mother Jones Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Business

How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

“We are beginning to understand what ails us, and it’s not something an oxygen facial or a treadmill desk can fix.”

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Jan 2019 30min Permalink

Business Politics Science

The Infiltrator

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

Alleen Brown The Intercept Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Business Crime

How a Real-Estate Scuffle Turned into a True Tale of Miami Vice

They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.

Mark Seal Vanity Fair Dec 2018 20min Permalink

Business

What Is Glitter?

An investigation.

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Caity Weaver on the Longform Podcast

Caity Weaver New York Times Dec 2018 15min Permalink

Business

Prime and Punishment

Sabotage and dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace.

Josh Dzieza The Verge Dec 2018 25min Permalink

Business

The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini

Who is the rightful inventor of the blockbuster swimsuit known as the Kiini?

Katherine Rosman New York Times Dec 2018 20min Permalink

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