As COVID-19 bears down, a spontaneous alliance of techies and health professionals in the city formerly known as Pablo Escobar’s hometown is making promising progress on an urgent medical problem. | Continue reading
Just out of Yale, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden staked their golden-boy reputations on a presumptuous, prophetic challenge to a recession-weakened media establishment. In an excerpt from a new biography of Luce, the author recounts the grueling, chaotic, exhilarating 1923 launch o … | Continue reading
The economic fallout of the pandemic is crippling the advertising business, as Gannett furloughs staff, BuzzFeed cuts pay, and the Tampa Bay Times reduces printing. Coronavirus has led to a surge in readership—and an existential threat. | Continue reading
They’re worried it could be bad for business. | Continue reading
The Fox News host believes that an administration (and GOP, and Democrats, and media) obsessed with impeachment couldn’t help but see the coronavirus through a political lens. But COVID-19, he says, shouldn’t be political. | Continue reading
Publicly, he sees it as yet another (“Fake News”) media war; privately, he worries about virus-carrying journalists on Air Force One. But cancel his rallies? “I’m not going to do it,” he says. | Continue reading
With Bernie rally coverage, Bernie-friendly guests, and a mandate to “seek out more smart, pro-Sanders voices,” the cable net confronts a new reality: “He’s winning,” says a source. | Continue reading
When Michael Crichton died at 66, he was the master of writing, directing, and producing the scientific thriller. Now, with Crichton’s Westworld reincarnated as an HBO hit, Sam Kashner remembers the entertainment giant. | Continue reading
Hedge-funder Mark Spitznagel believes the central banks have created a monster they don’t know how to stop. And when it comes (like in 2008) he’ll be ready. | Continue reading
Just before his first debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump’s campaign decided it was time for him to revoke birtherism at long last. But, as Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng report in Sinking In the Swamp, Trump wasn’t so willing to let it go. | Continue reading
A detective revisits the wild case of the missing statuettes 20 years later. | Continue reading
Trump, says a source, wants Bolton to be criminally investigated for possibly mishandling classified information. Romney, Schiff, and Nadler are also in West Wing crosshairs. | Continue reading
The entertainment industry’s reigning super-agent planned to put his firm—and the very power structure of Hollywood—on the line with an audacious, now scuttled public offering. With that future on hold and the likes of Netflix and Disney commanding more ground by the day, what’s … | Continue reading
Oh, and that the Department of Justice tried very hard to cover it up. | Continue reading
The surprise short is produced by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and is weird even by Lynch's standards. | Continue reading
While being filmed for a documentary, the president stumbled through his chosen passage, taking his frustration out on everyone around him, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig write in A Very Stable Genius. | Continue reading
Soaring debt, credit downgrades, unpaid workers. Is the U.S. economy becoming the Trump Taj Mahal? | Continue reading
Even as controversies (Bret Stephens) explode like bombs, Opinion chief James Bennet, the second-most powerful journalist at the Times, pursues his cacophonous plans. | Continue reading
Still living down the 2003 Iraq war disgrace, under pressure from multiple sides, and dealing with a truth-challenged administration, anchors and reporters struggle to calibrate their coverage. | Continue reading
With an Iran war looming, cuts at State, demoralized intelligence agencies, vulnerable embassies, and a reputation for untruth, Trump faces significant doubt on the home front for his foray abroad. | Continue reading
Oh, and that the Department of Justice tried very hard to cover it up. | Continue reading
Amazon says the employees' statements to the media violate their external communications policy. Employees say Amazon is trying to silence them. | Continue reading
Peter Thiel has reportedly been lobbying Mark Zuckerberg to refrain from fact checking political ads on the platform. | Continue reading
Yes, yes, Mr. Hooper, this will totally and completely save this movie. | Continue reading
During my time at Fox News, Ailes bent reality to fit his own needs. But his racist rants and warped demands—“all you have to do is kill Gretchen”—ultimately allowed the women of Fox to bring him down. | Continue reading
The G.O.P. is warning of a “constitutional crisis” if Clinton wins. | Continue reading
These days, who can argue that a pervasive sense that mysterious, implacable forces (depraved elitists, Russians) are manipulating everything isn’t completely rational? | Continue reading
The company is launching a digital banking interface—but it’s not clear what users will get out of forking over their financial information. | Continue reading
A questionable $100 million payout to CBS chief Joe Ianniello; continued wrangling with Les Moonves; falling stock prices. Can Shari Redstone fix things? “She’s starting to say some things like she cares,” says one observer. | Continue reading
Research analysts at MoffettNathanson estimate that AT&T could save “hundreds of millions” of dollars annually by combining the various independent pieces of WarnerMedia. And AT&T needs the money. As of the end of December, the company had total debt of about $180 billion, making … | Continue reading
Adam Neumann reimagined the millennial workplace as a capitalist kibbutz, and so dazzled Wall Street that his company was valued at $47 billion. He spent lavishly, and pressed forward even as “the narrative of the unicorn was ending,” says an executive. Now, after the collapse, h … | Continue reading
Apple’s carefully managed good guy aura is a powerful shield against criticism—but it may not last forever. | Continue reading
When Canadian blockchain whiz Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly last year, hundreds of millions of dollars in investor funds vanished into the crypto ether. But when the banks, the law, and the forces of Reddit tried to track down the cash, it turned out the young mogul may not hav … | Continue reading
When Canadian blockchain whiz Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly last year, hundreds of millions of dollars in investor funds vanished into the crypto ether. But when the banks, the law, and the forces of Reddit tried to track down the cash, it turned out the young mogul may not hav … | Continue reading
Adam Neumann reimagined the millennial workplace as a capitalist kibbutz, and so dazzled Wall Street that his company was valued at $47 billion. He spent lavishly, and pressed forward even as “the narrative of the unicorn was ending,” says an executive. Now, after the collapse, h … | Continue reading
With talent poached from Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, etc., and coverage written for “C-suite kinds of folks,” Protocol is Robert Allbritton’s latest dream. But is it late to the tech-journalism gold rush? | Continue reading
For years, Mark Zuckerberg was perceived in Silicon Valley as a bold and erudite leader who could outmaneuver anyone. Now the tables have turned—but not for the reasons you might think. | Continue reading
Private planes are the communal living space for the most rapacious, acquisitive people in the world. And the eternal question is: Whose is bigger? | Continue reading
With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up. | Continue reading
It’s not often that you speak truth to power and power responds, “Oops, sorry,” writes former Letterman writer Nell Scovell. | Continue reading
Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, the author goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, he is offered every decadence known to the East—and learns the truth about a legen … | Continue reading
The president’s talk can move markets—and it’s made some futures traders billions. Did they know what he was going to say before he said it? | Continue reading
The president’s talk can move markets—and it’s made some futures traders billions. Did they know what he was going to say before he said it? | Continue reading
Rich McHugh recounts how top NBC brass, including news chairman Andrew Lack and news president Noah Oppenheim, bowed to Harvey Weinstein to quash the truth. | Continue reading
William Langewiesche explores how a series of small errors can turn a state-of-the-art cockpit into a death trap. | Continue reading
Trump’s favorite punching bag is reaching out to fellow Republicans to raise the temperature on impeachment. “Romney is the one guy who could bring along Susan Collins, Cory Gardner, Ben Sasse,” says a Mitt confidant. | Continue reading
Trump’s favorite punching bag is reaching out to fellow Republicans to raise the temperature on impeachment. “Romney is the one guy who could bring along Susan Collins, Cory Gardner, Ben Sasse,” says a Mitt confidant. | Continue reading
In Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg built not just a business, but a company culture with the fervor of a messianic sect. | Continue reading