Undeniably curious, ecumenical in his taste in people, scourge of Gawker, the tech billionaire has captivated some of his ideological opponents with a series of TED Talk–like dinners. In the Los Angeles Game of Thrones, he’s Littlefinger. | Continue reading
He told a story about meritocratic entitlement that the elite wanted to believe. And in his heedlessness and narcissism, he mirrored the establishment values of his era. | Continue reading
With staff rushing for the exits, and the IPO on life support, Adam Neumann’s goal of being the world’s first trillionaire may be out of reach—but WeWork still has major real estate markets hostage. “It’s an all-around s--tshow,” said a WeWork executive. | Continue reading
As he exits Apple’s board, the Disney chief reminisces about his unlikely friendship with Jobs—and the potential mega-merger that wasn’t. | Continue reading
When Netflix execs Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings met with Blockbuster brass in 2000, they wanted to sell for $50 million. Blockbuster all but laughed them out of the room. So they decided to “kick their ass.” | Continue reading
The revenge of the Never Trumpers is more than just a pipe dream. If they can pierce the Fox News bubble, combatants like Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford will have accomplished something that few have even tried: getting through to the millions of swing voters who are sick of Trump. | Continue reading
At the height of Uber’s public relations nightmare, executives were confronted with a new crisis: telling their boss, Travis Kalanick, that he was poisoning the company’s brand. Kalanick exploded—and then began to spiral. As Mike Isaac reports in Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber … | Continue reading
The high-profile love triangle involving Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki, and Amanda Rosenberg has Silicon Valley facing emotional issues, from office romance to fear of mortality. | Continue reading
Trump wants to nuke hurricanes and the Amazon rainforest is burning. With the stakes so high, “are we really going to have a gaffe-fest over Joe Biden?” | Continue reading
The controversy over SolarCity, which has dovetailed with questions about Musk’s mountain of debt and profit shortfalls, offers a window into the mindset of America’s most outlandish CEO. | Continue reading
The $37 million Harry Winston jewelry heist was a perfect crime. The thieves’ mistake was returning for an even bigger score. But did police really convict the right men, or are the brains of the operation still at large? | Continue reading
Patrick Byrne says the FBI encouraged his relationship with Maria Butina—and used him as part of a “soft coup” against Donald Trump. In a letter to shareholders announcing his departure, Byrne worried his presence would become a distraction. | Continue reading
“What do you guys think about that?” he asked. “Would that work?” | Continue reading
With his groundbreaking nonfiction works, Ta-Nehisi Coates emerged as our most vital public intellectual. Now, his debut novel, The Water Dancer, takes him to uncharted depths. | Continue reading
How did a self-described German hippie and his wife pull off one of the biggest, most lucrative cons in art-world history? And how did they finally get nailed? | Continue reading
Twenty senators have urged the Treasury to give the wealthy another tax cut via executive order. | Continue reading
The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi was no aberration. A Vanity Fair investigation reveals how Saudi Arabia attempts to abduct, repatriate—and sometimes murder—citizens it regards as enemies of the state. | Continue reading
“It’s going to be staggering, the amount of names,” says a person involved with litigation against Epstein. “It’s going to be contagion numbers.” | Continue reading
Traders are talking about big options bets in advance of the president and others making news. Could they be related? | Continue reading
In the age of ceaseless content, everyone seems to have a TinyLetter or a Substack, and the personal-newsletter backlash is predictably here—but it might be misguided. | Continue reading
And it’s from Brazil. | Continue reading
A Christian group that once protested a “blasphemous” ice cream company now demands that Netflix ax Good Omens, which it believes constitutes “another step to make satanism appear normal, light and acceptable.” The problem? Good Omens is an Amazon Prime series. | Continue reading
The start-up promises content from filmmakers as illustrious as Steven Spielberg, Steven Soderbergh, and Antoine Fuqua. It’s coming for your phone. | Continue reading
One guess as to how the president will respond. | Continue reading
One guess as to how the president will respond. | Continue reading
With Jenna Lyons and Mickey Drexler long gone, Chris Benz is stepping in as the company that was built on privilege and prep tries to get back on its feet. | Continue reading
She only got $1 million. Trump called himself a billionaire, but likely wasn’t. Child support would cease if Tiffany joined the Army or the Peace Corps. | Continue reading
The Times recently yanked one of its journalists from Rachel Maddow amid concerns about cable-news “bias.” Dean Baquet “thinks it’s a real issue.” But didn’t MSNBC help rebuild the Times’s business? And aren’t they in the same Trump-era boat? | Continue reading
The Times recently yanked one of its journalists from Rachel Maddow amid concerns about cable-news “bias.” Dean Baquet “thinks it’s a real issue.” But didn’t MSNBC help rebuild the Times’s business? And aren’t they in the same Trump-era boat? | Continue reading
Siege is overflowing with botched initiatives, bragging about sexual conquests, Trumpian insults, and ally after ally who, privately, can’t stand the president while publicly going along. Even Mueller is no hero. | Continue reading
The Facebook co-founder has made enemies—very rich enemies—of many of his former partners, who are now speaking out. Chris Hughes and the others should put their money where their mouth is. | Continue reading
With everyone taking leave, managers worry there won’t be anyone left in the newsroom. “The Times has become a book-deal factory,” says one journalist. | Continue reading
In the last decade, most of the big U.S. airlines have shifted major maintenance work to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China, where few mechanics are F.A.A. certified and inspections have no teeth. | Continue reading
So much for Dara Khosrowshahi’s $100 million bonus. | Continue reading
The tech-nerd founder of Craigslist infamously helped to decimate journalism—inadvertently. But he’s finding that remaking it is not that simple. | Continue reading
The tech-nerd founder of Craigslist infamously helped to decimate journalism—inadvertently. But he’s finding that remaking it is not that simple. | Continue reading
It took just eight minutes for Harris to destroy the attorney general’s “no obstruction” story. | Continue reading
In this exclusive excerpt from Bitcoin Billionaires, Ben Mezrich traces the world’s biggest crypto cash-out back to a conference-room showdown featuring a booster seat, a handshake, and $65 million. | Continue reading
The fact that C.E.O. Andrew Liveris is a close adviser to Donald Trump can’t hurt. | Continue reading
The ride-hailing giant warns it may never achieve profitability. Is Uber the next Amazon, or the next pets.com? | Continue reading
She vanished without a trace last year. But it was what happened next that sent a shudder through the Chinese film industry. | Continue reading
Ray Dalio is extremely worried there’s about to be an uprising in America. | Continue reading
Mega-dealers Gagosian and Zwirner, two of the biggest names in contemporary art, are locked in a high-stakes skirmish to represent the late Austrian artist Franz West. | Continue reading
Now that HBO’s The Inventor has brought chatter about Holmes’s voice to the fore, her family wants to debunk the conspiracy theories—but is this enough to dissuade the masses? | Continue reading
Wall Street is banking on technologies such as autonomous cars, which will allow us to watch advertisements instead of the road. Are we setting ourselves up for a future that we won’t be able to turn off? Or, worse, is it a hackers’ paradise? | Continue reading
Inside Fox, staffers believe that C.E.O. Lachlan Murdoch is likely to nudge the network in a less pro-Trump direction. Is this the first step in a larger strategy to sell the newly spun-off company? | Continue reading
As the Mexican cartel leader’s trial draws to an end, one thing is clear: drug kingpins reign as long as they make their partners money. When they stop, they end up in jail. | Continue reading