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Business

After the Crash

The case against Boeing.

Alec MacGillis New Yorker Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Business Tech

Disney CEO Bob Iger's Empire of Tech

How he made big and early bets on new technologies—and won.

Michal Lev-Ram Fortune Jan 2015 20min Permalink

Business Media

The Company That Branded Your Millennial Life Is Pivoting To Burnout

When a marketing team found themselves burning out, they shifted their business focus to doing something about it. But if capitalism caused this problem, can capitalism fix it?

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Business Crime Tech

How Facebook Bought a Police Force

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.

Sarah Emerson Vice Oct 2019 20min Permalink

Business Crime

The Perfect Dealer

Customer feedback on the New York City coke dealing industry.

Elizabeth Spiers Gawker Jan 2003 10min Permalink

Business Travel

My Own Private Iceland

On tourism and authenticity.

Kyle Chayka Vox Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Business

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

From the beginning, Intuit recognized that its success depended on two parallel missions: stoking innovation in Silicon Valley while stifling it in Washington. Indeed, employees ruefully joke that the company’s motto should actually be “compromise without integrity.”

Justin Elliott, Paul Kiel ProPublica Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Business Crime Sports

Sinners, Scalpers and the Search for God

Inside an international Mormon ticket reselling ring.

Travis Pilling SB Nation, Epic Oct 2019 40min Permalink

Business Tech

When GoFundMe Gets Ugly

The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror to who we are and what matters most to us. Try not to look away.

Rachel Monroe The Atlantic Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Business

Is Amazon Unstoppable?

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

Charles Duhigg New Yorker Oct 2019 50min Permalink

Business Crime

The Billion-Dollar High-Speed Internet Scam

Elizabeth Pierce impressed investors with hefty contracts for fiber—until they learned she was the only one who’d signed them.

Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Oct 2019 15min Permalink

Business Crime

How the Prison Economy Works

From pecan pralines to ‘dots.’

Richard Davies The Guardian Aug 2019 Permalink

Business

The Hedge Fund Billionaire’s Guide to Buying Your Kids a Better Shot at Not Just One Elite College, but Lots of Them

Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.

Ava Kofman, Daniel Golden ProPublica Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Business Health

Dark Crystals

The economic reality behind a billion-dollar wellness craze.

Tess McClure The Guardian Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Business Tech

How TikTok Controls Our Attention

“I found it both freeing and disturbing to spend time on a platform that didn’t ask me to pretend that I was on the Internet for a good reason.”

Jia Tolentino New Yorker Sep 2019 Permalink

Best Article Business

What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max?

Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty.

William Langewiesche New York Times Magazine Sep 2019 55min Permalink

Business

What College Admissions Offices Really Want

Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all.

Paul Tough New York Times Magazine Sep 2019 Permalink

Business Politics

Why Can’t California Solve Its Housing Crisis?

It’s the epicenter of the tech industry and the wealthiest, most progressive state in the union, but homelessness is surging — and no one can agree on how to fix it.

Tessa Stuart Rolling Stone Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Business

The Cost of Next-Day Delivery

How Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.

Caroline O'Donovan, Ken Bensinger Buzzfeed Aug 2019 35min Permalink

Business Crime

A Lawyer, 40 Dead Americans, and a Billion Gallons of Coal Sludge

In 2008, a federally owned power plant spewed coal sludge over 300 acres in Tennessee. Now, 40 people who helped clean up the mess are dead and 300 ill.

J.R. Sullivan Men's Journal Aug 2019 35min Permalink

Business Tech Music

Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music

“Neil Young is crankier than a hermit being stung by bees. He hates Spotify. He hates Facebook. He hates Apple. He hates Steve Jobs. He hates what digital technology is doing to music.”

David Samuels New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Business

The Fall Of Overstock’s Mad King

Patrick Bryne’s tenure at Overstock.com was already on the rocks, due to an all in bet on blockchain technology, before he admitted that he had an affair with the Russian operative Maria Butina.

Lauren Debter Forbes Aug 2019 Permalink

Business Media

Pet Project

Can a college sophomore turn WeRateDogs into a puppers empire?

Megan Greenwell Esquire May 2017 20min Permalink

Business

If the Tuition Doesn’t Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will

National developers are behind the proliferation of luxury apartments near college campuses, and they’re driving low-income students farther away.

Ali Breland Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2019 10min Permalink

Business World

Arming the Cartels

The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring.

Seth Harp Rolling Stone Aug 2019 Permalink

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