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.
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
The empty promises and empty buildings of Foxconn’s Wisconsin debacle.
Josh Dzieza The Verge Oct 2020 30min Permalink
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
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
What’s the future of NYC real estate?
Andrew Rice Curbed Oct 2020 30min Permalink
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
On the future of air travel.
Samanth Subramanian The Guardian Sep 2020 25min Permalink
The bizarre story of what happened when Chinese crypto millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent.
Chris Harland-Dunaway The Verge Sep 2020 Permalink
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
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
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
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
On the downfall of ubiquitous accident law firm, Cellino & Barnes.
Jeremy Kutner New York Sep 2020 30min Permalink
Vivian Stephens helped turn romance writing into a billion-dollar industry. Then she got pushed out.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Aug 2020 35min Permalink
How the USPS works.
Jesse Lichtenstein Esquire Feb 2013 40min Permalink
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
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
How the fashion industry collapsed.
Irina Aleksander New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink
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
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
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
How a pandemic unfolds when you’re a Wall Street billionaire.
Max Abelson Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2020 15min Permalink
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
The coronavirus shutdown through the eyes of the recently unemployed.
California Sunday Jul 2020 Permalink
“It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar.”
Shirin Ghaffary, Jason Del Rey Recode Jun 2020 30min Permalink