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The fixer
Was Tom Hayes really running history’s biggest financial conspiracy? “Hayes’s crisis had been averted. Using his network, he had personally tilted one of the central pillars of the planet’s financial...
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Privacy: The sequel
The challenges presented by an ever-changing concept of privacy “In 2005, the NSA wiretapping phones without warrants was a shocking scoop. In 2013, we found out the NSA had everything. Ten years ago,...
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Sneaker wars
Inside the battle between Nike and Adidas “Nike calls its headquarters a “campus,” and the place—with its man-made lake and undulating running trail and blossoming cherry trees—is undeniably beautiful,...
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Me Inc.
Ann Friedman goes on a quest to build a personal brand “The conference organizers had asked me to speak about how journalists can create a “personal brand,” and tantalized by a subsidized vacation in...
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How ‘Kid A’ kicked off the streaming revolution
On the Capitol Records executive who helped Radiohead pioneer streaming on the Internet “Given how commonplace pre-release album streams are in 2015, it might be difficult to fathom how incredible this...
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The fall of King Coal
Don Blankenship’s influence and money changed politics in America’s ‘coal country’, now he hopes it will keep him out of prison “Heavyset and balding, with a slug of a mustache and anthracite eyes, he...
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How two guys lost God and found $40 million
How Abe Zeines and Meir Hurwitz cashed in on a new type of predatory finance “With a pound of lox as a housewarming gift, I’ve come to their tax-haven sex mansion to hear their improbable story—how two...
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First, let’s get rid of all the bosses
The radical experiment at Zappos designed to turn corporate culture on its head “In recent years, however, Hsieh’s experiments with corporate culture have become more philosophical. About three years...
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Building doomsday shelters for billionaires
Robert Vicino builds bomb shelters for those who want to survive the apocalypse in luxury “… but Vicino caters to survivalists whose fears are backed up by money. The San Diego businessman is gunning...
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Raiders of the lost web
On a pioneering piece of investigative journalism that vanished from the Internet “The promise of the web is that Alexandria’s library might be resurrected for the modern world. But today’s great...
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Get up, stand up
How Black Lives Matter uses social media to fight the power “In the 1960s, if you were a civil rights worker stationed in the Deep South and you needed to get some urgent news out to the rest of the...
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How an F student became America’s most prolific inventor
On Lowell Wood, the man who broke Thomas Edison’s patent record “Wood is quick to suggest that he knew all along that the system, while technically feasible, was too complex and expensive to be...
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