A Chinese Company Has Conquered a Piece of America
Dead construction workers, a corrupt political family, and the “impossibly lucrative casino” on the island of Saipan where Chinese gamblers can game on U.S. soil.
Dead construction workers, a corrupt political family, and the “impossibly lucrative casino” on the island of Saipan where Chinese gamblers can game on U.S. soil.
Matthew Campbell Bloomberg Business Feb 2018 20min Permalink
Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California’s landscape, and ruled entire towns. But the one thing he can’t control is what he’s most dependent on—water.
Mark Arax California Sunday Jan 2018 1h20min Permalink
What happens when you get evicted.
Joseph Williams Curbed Jan 2018 15min Permalink
Inside the boardroom as Uber’s press nightmare unfolded.
Eric Newcomer, Brad Stone Businessweek Jan 2018 15min Permalink
A new kind of late capitalism.
Alexis C. Madrigal The Atlantic Jan 2018 10min Permalink
A widow and her stepchildren battle Chase and each other.
Joseph Guinto D Magazine Jan 2018 20min Permalink
The family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.
Reeves Wiedeman New York Jan 2018 20min Permalink
It’s less about robots and the gig economy and more about companies stripping away the security full-time work has long afforded.
Danny Vinik Politico Jan 2018 20min Permalink
The subway built New York City. Now it might destroy it.
Jonathan Mahler New York Times Magazine Jan 2018 35min Permalink
When a call center gig turns out to be something else.
Snigdha Poonam The Guardian Jan 2018 15min Permalink
Inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking.
Mara Hvistendahl Wired Dec 2017 25min Permalink
Decades after the company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, harassment and assault continues.
Susan Chira, Catrin Einhorn New York Times Dec 2017 25min Permalink
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A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”
John Lanchester London Review of Books Feb 2004 25min Permalink
Millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
Michael Hobbes Huffington Post Dec 2017 40min Permalink
Five years after they leave the league, 60 percent of NBA players have nothing left. In the NFL, it’s closer to 80 percent after just two years. On the economics of professional sports.
Pablo S. Torre Sports Illustrated Mar 2009 25min Permalink
In February 1637, the Dutch tulip market had grown to the point that a single bulb sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsworker. Then, almost overnight, the market crashed completely.
Andrew Therrien wanted payback. He got it—and uncovered a conspiracy.
Zeke Faux Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2017 15min Permalink
How a cartel invented and marketed the modern diamond.
Edward Jay Epstein The Atlantic Feb 1982 40min Permalink
The story of a national obsession.
Sam Knight The Guardian Nov 2017 25min Permalink
Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.
Matthew Campbell, Franz Wild Bloomberg Businessweek Nov 2017 25min Permalink
I played a father for a 12-year-old with a single mother. The girl was bullied because she didn’t have a dad, so the mother rented me. I’ve acted as the girl’s father ever since. I am the only real father that she knows.
Roc Morin The Atlantic Nov 2017 10min Permalink
How it feels to lose $30,000 in Bitcoin.
Mark Frauenfelder Wired Oct 2017 20min Permalink
Inside the empire of Botox.
Cynthia Koons Businessweek Oct 2017 15min Permalink
The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Oct 2017 55min Permalink
Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger?
David Zax Fast Company Oct 2017 15min Permalink