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On the coming age of domestic drones.
Reprints Business Science Tech
On the coming age of domestic drones.
Eli Sanders The Magazine Mar 2013 30min Permalink
How does a company that sells youth learn to grow up?
Susan Berfield, Lindsey Rupp Bloomberg Businessweek Jan 2015 15min Permalink
Inside Roger Goodell’s troubling (or wildly successful, depending on who you ask) tenure as NFL commissioner.
Gabriel Sherman GQ Feb 2015 20min Permalink
Nearing the end of his career, a Canadian tycoon named Michael DeGroote went for one last deal, investing $100 million to build a Las Vegas in the Dominican Republic. His partners? Two brothers with a criminal past, a con man and an old friend with close ties to the mob.
Greg McArthur The Globe and Mail Jan 2015 Permalink
A profile of the best-selling author, self-help guru and convicted felon.
Aaron Gell Business Insider Jan 2015 50min Permalink
It takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond. Yet in drought-ravaged California, hedge funds are racing to plant as many new trees as they can.
Tom Philpott Mother Jones Jan 2015 15min Permalink
A Georgia chicken farmer hoped to find financial independence in ethical foie gras. Things got weird.
Wyatt Williams Eater Jan 2015 25min Permalink
The theme-park chain where kids learn to pilot a plane, pay taxes, and pretend to be adults.
Rebecca Mead New Yorker Jan 2015 25min Permalink
Cheryl Shuman has been a coupon queen, an optician to the stars and the plaintiff in a lawsuit against Steven Segal. Now she’s the face of the high-end weed market.
Theodore Ross New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 10min Permalink
What does it take for heroin to grab hold in the small, remote towns of America? Like any business, it starts with one man and an entrepreneurial dream.
“If you’d like to relive your horrible moment, if you want people to know what actually happened, talk to me. I will tell your story.” — Sean Flynn on the Longform Podcast
Sean Flynn GQ Jan 2015 20min Permalink
What do we give up when we become freedom-seeking, self-determining, autonomous entrepreneurs? A lot, actually.
Jennifer Senior New York Jan 2015 15min Permalink
The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.
Nicholas Carlson New York Times Magazine Dec 2014 20min Permalink
An army of Western luxury-lifestyle purveyors flock to China to teach the country’s new billionaires how to act rich.
Devin Friedman GQ Jan 2015 Permalink
Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?
Reeves Wiedeman New York Jan 2015 20min Permalink
The promises and pitfalls of self-tracking devices and apps.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Jan 2015 25min Permalink
Three years ago, Shell spent millions to send a colossal oil rig to drill in the remote seas of the Arctic. But the Arctic had other plans.
McKenzie Funk New York Times Magazine Dec 2014 35min Permalink
The scientists at Beyond Meat have concocted a plant-protein-based performance burger that delivers the juicy flavor and texture of beef with none of the dietary and environmental downsides.
Rowan Jacobsen Outside Dec 2014 15min Permalink
Inside the multibillion-dollar business of keeping foreigners out of America.
Jose M. Orduna Buzzfeed Dec 2014 25min Permalink
The inside story, involving low ratings, new ownership, suspected leaks, and a mandate that Meet the Press “loosen up.”
Luke Mullins Washingtonian Dec 2014 25min Permalink
The rise and murderous fall of the Harkey family, the scions of a pecan dynasty.
Sonia Smith Texas Monthly Dec 2014 35min Permalink
When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Matter Dec 2014 30min Permalink
How the China National Tobacco Corp., which manufactures 2.5 trillion cigarettes per year, came to make more money than Apple.
Andrew Martin Businessweek Dec 2014 15min Permalink
Without fanfare—indeed, with some misgivings about its new status—China has just overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy.
Joseph E. Stieglitz Vanity Fair Dec 2014 10min Permalink
What the first-sale doctrine means for the future of copyright.
Doug Kari Ars Technica Nov 2014 20min Permalink
On a 16-year-old Silicon Valley wunderkind.
Benjamin Wallace New York Dec 2014 15min Permalink