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Oct 31 20162 minutes
Some Cities Want Their Immigrants To Vote
San Francisco considers opening up local elections to newcomers | “We had 40 states that used to allow” noncitizens to cast ballots
Oct 31 20163 minutes
When Spotting A Hack Doesn’t Help You
Ben Cotton diagnosed a massive federal breach, then got stiffed | “Ben is more tactically focused than strategically focused”
Oct 31 20162 minutes
Gulf Rulers Try Fighting Deficits With Taxes
The United Arab Emirates will hire professionals to institute a VAT | “It seems unlikely that personal income taxes will be applied”
Oct 31 20161 minute
Tobacco Taxes Work—If They’re High Enough
Four states have referendums to raise cigarette taxes. The initiatives are worthwhile in three
Oct 31 20163 minutes
A Serious Pounding
The currency’s 18 percent drop since the vote reflects mounting fears of a hard exit | The pound is “the de facto official opposition of Brexit”
Oct 31 20164 minutes
What Happens In Vegas Doesn’t Stay There
Macau is stealing some pages from the U.S. resort playbook | “There are lots of good lessons that we can learn from Las Vegas”
Oct 31 20162 minutes
Movers
Ups Game 1 between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians drew the highest ratings for a World Series opener since 2009—18 percent higher among 18- to 49-year-old viewers than the first game of last year’s series between the New York Mets and th
Oct 31 20165 minutes
The Toll Of Cheap Clothing
In April 2013, when the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh crumbled and killed more than a thousand garment workers, Western clothing executives were chastened. They were the ones, after all, who’d been pressuring Bangladesh’s apparel factories to che
Oct 31 20163 minutes
Apple’s Way-Open House
The company is teaming up with builders in a bid for smart homes | “The best place to start is at the beginning”
Oct 31 20163 minutes
Advising On Tax Moves And Auditing Them, Too
Big Four firms do double duty as consultants for their clients | “It destroys the auditor’s ability to be objective”
Oct 30 20161 minute
1 An Experiment In The Woods
ARCHITECT STEVEN HOLL SAVED A PLOT OF LAND FROM DEVELOPMENT AND BUILT HIMSELF A GUESTHOUSE THAT SLEEPS FIVE—BUT HAS NO BEDROOMS.
Oct 30 20166 minutes
The Internet As You Know It Does Not Exist
Eight (completely plausible) alternate histories on the 25th anniversary of the web.
Oct 30 20161 minute
Where They Hang Out
Anyplace with Wi-Fi, for starters.
Oct 24 20164 minutes
Tragic Accident Or Murder?
It’s been almost 8 years since Melissa Calusinski confessed to—and was then convicted of—murdering 16-month-old Benjamin Kingan at his daycare. Will an expert’s new look at his X-rays set her free?
Oct 24 20162 minutes
The Financial World’s Rotten Culture Is Still A Threat—To All Of Us
SOMETIMES IT TAKES A GROUP of economists to confirm reality. Last year, a team of German academics released a study on the effects of major financial crises on politics, examining 800 elections over 140 years in 20 advanced economies. They found that
Oct 24 20162 minutes
4 Steps For The Next President
Racism should be a core concern for all Americans, in every area of our lives. Implicit bias—our subconscious associations of race—permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it. The next President must apply th
Oct 24 20166 minutes
Restoring Order To The Rule Of Law
IT’S JUST AFTER 8 A.M. inside a drab second-floor classroom two miles from the Seattle airport, and Rex Caldwell is trying to get two dozen cops to talk about their feelings. “This is not meant to be touchy-feely,” he insists, a plea for them to let
Oct 24 20161 minute
Society Needs To Care For All Our Caregivers
Americans are famous for working hard. Sometimes, though, life needs to take priority over work, and the U.S. is notoriously lacking in policies that support employees who need to take time off when it does. We are the only developed country in the
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Sci-Fi Evolves Into Disturbing Reality In Black Mirror And Westworld
LACIE TAKES A CAREFUL BITE OF A COOKIE AND SPITS IT into her hand, then places the rest of it on the saucer next to her cup of coffee. She snaps a picture to post on social media, captioning it Heaven. She giggles as the likes rack up. It’s a famili
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Obamacare: In Need Of Intensive Care, Or Terminally Ill?
IN A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE conspicuously devoid of substantive policy or civil agreement, there was one notable exception. By the end of the town-hall showdown on Oct. 9, it was clear both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton agreed that President Obama’s
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Who’s Picking Up The Education Tab?
THE PROBLEM of skyrocketing college costs is, by at least some measures, even worse than we thought. The total amount of outstanding student debt has roughly tripled in the past decade, creeping toward $1.3 trillion, and 1 in 10 borrowers is now eith
Oct 24 20161 minute
13th: An Amendment With An Identity Crisis
EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING about the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery—or about the criminal-justice system—there will be something in Ava DuVernay’s succinct, passionate documentary 13th to make your jaw drop. Although the amendment
Oct 24 20167 minutes
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Child-Care Problem
MEREDITH AND PAUL TWEED did their best to plan for parenting. They had successfully timed the birth of their first son, now 5, for the beginning of summer, since Meredith’s job as a university instructor did not offer paid maternity leave. When fall
Oct 24 20162 minutes
The Dangers Of An Empty Seat
FOR MONTHS, Republican Senators have obstinately refused to consider Chief Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Senator Mitch McConnell set this strategy in motion mere hours after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, when he issued a
Oct 24 20163 minutes
Where The Next Crisis Will Come From
Keep an eye on depressed lenders, shadow banks, and China
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Q&A: Roger Ferguson, CEO Of TIAA
Finding something to like about a low interest rate world
Oct 24 20164 minutes
The Slow-Motion Bust
This wasn’t the year the tech bubble popped, as a lot of people predicted. But the industry’s stratification into a few sure bets and everybody else isn’t helping guide us out of the iPhone era into whatever’s next
Oct 24 20161 minute
Hot Seat
Pedro Parente, the new chief executive officer of Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras, has what is arguably the toughest job in the industry. He has to fix the company’s reputation, which was tarnished by the central role it played in the corrup
Oct 24 20163 minutes
China’s Housing Bubble Wobble
Officials struggle to manage an uneven boom
Oct 24 20163 minutes
Greenwich Lean Time
Too many hedge funds, too much money, and not enough ideas

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