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Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar The Song 'I drew this house when I was about forty,' the singer Gloria Gaynor said the other day. 'This was my dream house.' She was giving [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Entrepreneur Stacy Spikes, the C.E.O. of MoviePass, was buying popcorn at the Angelika Film Center the other day, before a screening of Darren Aronofsky's 'The Whale.' 'I [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Anti-Woke, Inc. Will skewering corporate do-gooders and civil-rights activists make Vivek Ramaswamy a right-wing star? In June, as the sun set on Dublin, Ohio, a well-to-do suburb [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar The Money War Inside an unprecedented campaign of sanctions to drive Putin from Ukraine. One afternoon at the end of March, barely a month into Russia's full-scale [...]

''When McKinsey Comes to Town,'' by the Times reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, argues that the legendary firm has accrued an inordinate amount of influence chasing profits at the [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Re-Start Jamie Fiore Higgins was flipping through racks of clothes at TJ Maxx on Wall Street the other day, looking for a bargain. 'So, like, my mom's [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Dead Stock Carla Zaccagnini was seated on a bench the other day, riffling through a pile of cash. 'I've been collecting money that's not in circulation anymore,' [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Sex and Money Jay Newman, a semi-retired sovereign-debt investor, was in the European Paintings galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the other day, hunting for a [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Grilling the Gilt When HBO announced 'The Gilded Age,' its new series about a railroad baron and his wife fighting for social status against the Old Guard [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Break Room Most attempts to translate the 2008 financial crisis to stage or screen, such as 'The Big Short,' 'Margin Call' and 'The Lehman Trilogy,' have focussed [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar The Enforcer Lina Khan's battle to rein in Big Tech. In the spring of 2011, a recent Williams College graduate named Lina Khan interviewed for a job [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Statue Limitations 'The pose-there's something really empowering about it,' the artist Kristen Visbal said. She was standing behind her most famous work, the 'Fearless Girl' statue on [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar The Family Business How an adoption broker cashed in on prospective parents' dreams. To Kyle Belz-Thomas, an ideal life included a noisy house full of children. 'Kyle [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Like Atticus The actor Jeff Daniels recently returned to his pied-é-terre in Manhattan after a long pandemic absence. 'It's a little like walking into a dead person's [...]

THE DEVIL'S PLAYBOOKBig Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New GenerationBy Lauren Etter Beginning around 2017, upper-middle-class parents who already had the threat of online bullying, screen addiction, drugs, [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar The Big Gamble Is Robinhood democratizing finance or encouraging risk? Early on the morning of January 19th, Cody Herdman woke to the vibration of his smartphone alarm [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Trailer-Park Trades When corporations acquire mobile-home communities, what happens to the residents? One day in October, 2016, Carrie Presley was visiting her boyfriend, Ken Mills, when she [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Sewage Studies Chris Randall, a field technician with EST Associates, an environmental-field-services company, was standing over a manhole cover in Cambridge, Massachusetts, holding two crowbars, preparing to [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar In Too Deep Patrick Byrne was always outspoken. Did an affair with a Russian agent push him over the edge? In July, 2015, Patrick Byrne, the founder [...]

The article focuses on Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive officer of the now bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, who has been facing criminal charges, including fraud and money laundering. It explores his background, his family's involvement in academia and philanthropy, his rise in the cryptocurrency industry. It also highlights the broader issues related to cryptocurrency and financial ethics.

WHISTLEBLOWERMy Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at UberBy Susan Fowler In December 2015, Susan Fowler was settling into a new job as a software engineer at the [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Embarrassment of Riches The ultra-wealthy who argue that they should be paying higher taxes. tifPhotograph by Platon for The New YorkerAbigail Disney, an heir to the Disney [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar The Unbanked tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda18 Carlos Acevedo, a teacher at a public high school in the South Bronx, recently invited a group of his former students [...]

The article offers information on Alex Spiro, a prominent trial lawyer known for representing celebrities and billionaires in high-profile cases. It discuses that Spiro's rise to fame and his unorthodox strategies; including leveraging his media presence and making use of social media; and also highlights some of the famous cases Spiro has handled, including his representation of Elon Musk and his success in securing acquittals for high-profile clients.

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar In the Ring Elizabeth Warren made her name criticizing Wall Street. Can her economic proposals set her apart from her primary rivals? tifPhotograph by Brian Finke for [...]

Byline: Sheelah KolhatkarThe Whistle-BlowersThe personal toll of exposing fraud. tifIllustration by David PlunkertThe government recovered nearly $2.6 billion from the health-care industry in 2017, much of it thanks to whistle-blowers.31 [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Breaking the News How Sinclair is moving local stations to the right. tifIllustration by Paul Sahre; photograph from Blend Images / ColorBlind Images / GettySinclair has largely [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar The Doomsday Investor Paul Singer's hedge fund always wins. tifIllustration by Christian Northeast; photograph (man) by Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg / GettySinger, through his hedge fund, Elliott [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Taking the Wheel Can Uber's new leader turn the scandal-plagued company around? tifPhotograph by Pari Dukovic for The New YorkerWhen Dara Khosrowshahi applied to become Uber's C.E.O., [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar The Disrupters The tech world is notorious for its gender discrimination, but more and more women are pushing for change. One day in 2013, AJ Vandermeyden drove [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Drowning in Debt In 2012, Cate Long was working at the news service Reuters, where she wrote a daily column on the municipal-bond market. Municipal bonds are [...]

The article examines how accountable should adult websites should be for the content they host. It explores the tragedy happened with a fifteen years old girl, Rachel who received her nude photographs from a number she did not recognize and threatening to forward the picture to her mother. It mentions that Rachel filed a complaint with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command, a division of the United Kingdom National Crime Agency.

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Dark Factory The robotics revolution is changing what machines can do. Where do humans fit in? When David Stinson finished high school, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Played Out On a recent afternoon, the Toys R Us big-box store in Coney Island, Brooklyn, was lively. The entrance was crowded with racks of Halloween costumes. [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar National Disaster In September, 2016, Donald Trump delivered a speech at the Economic Club of New York. 'Today, I'm going to outline a plan for American economic [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Bad Ratings Last spring, a resident of Lexington, Kentucky, named Jessica Abney logged on to her computer and noticed something odd: her monthly cable bill, which had [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar No More Mr. Nice Guy In December, 2015, a new startup called Juno entered the ride-hailing market in New York City with a simple proposition: it was [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Stickler Status Grand Cayman, the largest of the Cayman Islands, is distinguished by a crescent-shaped, white-sand beach lined with four- and five-star hotels, dive shops, and stores [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Martin Shkreli Is Still Talking On a recent evening, Martin Shkreli was drinking beer at Tuttles, a bar in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan that has [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Mar-a-Lago Rules When it comes to America's technology industry, Donald Trump takes a dim view of foreign workers. 'I will end forever the use of the H-1B [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Shorting a Rainbow It looked like a pyramid scheme that preyed on the poor. Could you make a fortune by bringing it down? One day in the [...]

The gap between the rich and the poor has been growing wider for some time, but the really rich have now achieved escape velocity. They have far more money than [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar The Anti-Uber An upstart tries out a bold strategy in the ride wars. The LaGuardia Plaza Hotel is a four-minute drive from LaGuardia Airport, in Queens, and [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar Algorithm Blues 'I'm a really boring person,' Cathy O'Neil said one recent Sunday evening. 'I do all of my thinking at home.' O'Neil is a former hedge-fund [...]

Byline: Sheelah Kolhatkar The Californians Gloria Allred, the crusading women's-rights lawyer, was racing through the Pennsylvania Convention Center last week when someone screamed, 'Gloria! Can we take a picture?' It [...]

HOW WOMEN DECIDEWhat's True, What's Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best ChoicesBy Therese Huston373 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $28. Therese Huston recounts a story at the beginning of ''How [...]