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Business

When the Virus Came for the American Dream

Buford Highway, in suburban Atlanta, has long been a place where immigrant entrepreneurs could build businesses and get ahead. Not this year.

Matthew Shaer New York Times Magazine Nov 2020 30min Permalink

Business

The 8th Wonder of the World

The empty promises and empty buildings of Foxconn’s Wisconsin debacle.

Josh Dzieza The Verge Oct 2020 30min Permalink

Business Crime

Cash Driven

Big banks entrusted money to an armored truck company GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions.

Bethany Barnes Tampa Bay Times Oct 2020 25min Permalink

Business Politics

Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.

Trump’s trade representative joined the administration with one mission: Bring factory jobs back from overseas. The results so far? Endless trade wars, alienated allies, and a manufacturing recession.

Lydia DePillis ProPublica Oct 2020 25min Permalink

Business

The Panic Attack of the Power Brokers

What’s the future of NYC real estate?

Andrew Rice Curbed Oct 2020 30min Permalink

Business Crime

The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd

A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?

Aymann Ismail Slate Oct 2020 25min Permalink

Business Health

Inside the Airline Industry's Meltdown

On the future of air travel.

Samanth Subramanian The Guardian Sep 2020 25min Permalink

Business World

Hype Man of the Century

The bizarre story of what happened when Chinese crypto millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent.

Chris Harland-Dunaway The Verge Sep 2020 Permalink

Business

Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You

Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers.

Ken Armstrong, Justin Elliott, Ariana Tobin ProPublica Oct 2020 30min Permalink

Business Politics

The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.

Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation’s wealthiest people. It never had a chance.

Jesse Eisinger, Paul Kiel ProPublica Apr 2019 20min Permalink

Business Politics

The Democracy Factory

For decades, the vote-by-mail business was a sleepy industry that stayed out of the spotlight. Then came 2020.

Jesse Barron California Sunday Sep 2020 20min Permalink

Business Politics Tech Media

Mark in the Middle

For years, Mark Zuckerberg has faced criticism that Facebook is bad for democracy. A cache of leaked audio reveals the story of how much ultimately comes down to his judgment—and the forces freezing him in place.

Casey Newton The Verge Sep 2020 25min Permalink

Business

Injured?

On the downfall of ubiquitous accident law firm, Cellino & Barnes.

Jeremy Kutner New York Sep 2020 30min Permalink

Arts Business

Pride and Prejudice

Vivian Stephens helped turn romance writing into a billion-dollar industry. Then she got pushed out.

Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Aug 2020 35min Permalink

Business Politics

Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office?

How the USPS works.

Jesse Lichtenstein Esquire Feb 2013 40min Permalink

Business

What Is MasterClass Actually Selling?

The ads are everywhere. You can learn to serve like Serena Williams or write like Margaret Atwood. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altogether different.

Carina Chocano The Atlantic Aug 2020 30min Permalink

Business History World

Number Fever: The Pepsi Contest That Became a Deadly Fiasco

Decades ago, a marketing stunt promised Philippine soda drinkers a chance at a million pesos. But an error at a bottling plant led to 600,000 winners—and to lawsuits, rioting, and even deaths.

Jeff Maysh Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2020 20min Permalink

Best Article Business

Sweatpants Forever

How the fashion industry collapsed.

Irina Aleksander New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink

Business

The Only One in the Room

On Wall Street, being Black often means being alone, held back, deprived of the best opportunities.

Max Abelson, Sonali Basak, Kelsey Butler, Matthew Leising, Jenny Surane, Gillian Tan Bloomberg Aug 2020 30min Permalink

Business Politics

Lured to America — Then Trapped

Visas for farmworkers have surged under Trump. But the program has subjected some workers to horrific abuse.

Suzy Khimm, Daniella Silva NBC Jul 2020 20min Permalink

Business

How Ben & Jerry’s Perfected the Delicate Recipe for Corporate Activism

Other companies tried to align themselves with the Black Lives Matter protests and failed. The Vermont creamery kept doing what it’s always done.

Jordyn Holman, Thomas Buckley Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2020 15min Permalink

Business

Covid Conversations With One of America’s Richest Men

How a pandemic unfolds when you’re a Wall Street billionaire.

Max Abelson Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2020 15min Permalink

Business Politics

How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic

The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the President’s top donors, is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to strip workers of protections.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Jul 2020 25min Permalink

Business

Out of Work

The coronavirus shutdown through the eyes of the recently unemployed.

California Sunday Jul 2020 Permalink

Business

The Real Cost of Amazon

“It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar.”

Shirin Ghaffary, Jason Del Rey Recode Jun 2020 30min Permalink

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