YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
How proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement.
How proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement.
Mark Bergen Bloomberg Apr 2019 15min Permalink
How Miami’s real estate industry turns a blind eye to climate change.
Sarah Miller Popula Apr 2019 20min Permalink
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
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
The making of a convenience store empire.
Eric Benson Texas Monthly Mar 2019 25min Permalink
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
When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better.
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
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America.
Casey Newton The Verge Feb 2019 30min Permalink
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
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.
Nick Bilton Vanity Fair Feb 2019 15min Permalink
On the cutthroat dealings of the porta-potty business.
David Gauvey Herbert New York Feb 2019 15min Permalink
He never saw it coming.
Matthew Campbell, Kae Inoue, Jie Ma, Ania Nussbaum Businessweek Jan 2018 25min Permalink
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
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
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
A profile of the woman who wants to declutter the world.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Jul 2016 10min Permalink
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
Alaska can show us the way.
Katia Savchuk Mother Jones Dec 2018 30min Permalink
“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
How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.
Alleen Brown The Intercept Dec 2018 30min Permalink
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
An investigation.
Caity Weaver New York Times Dec 2018 15min Permalink
Sabotage and dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace.
Josh Dzieza The Verge Dec 2018 25min Permalink
Who is the rightful inventor of the blockbuster swimsuit known as the Kiini?
Katherine Rosman New York Times Dec 2018 20min Permalink