The multinational corporation is gradually privatizing a natural resource.

The Facebook CEO is in control of his company. He could just use a little more confidence.

Blueberry growing is popular around tiny Covert, Michigan, but how do these farmers of color keep their kids farming the land?

Nathan Wessler, a lawyer with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, monitors a government that increasingly monitors its citizens.

Fifty years ago, the Freedom of Information Act gave the public access to government secrets — all you had to do was ask. How a simple request became a bureaucratic nightmare.

The first in a New York Times’ series about global obesity looks at the place of processed foods in Brazil.

Bob Mankoff created a successful business model for cartoonists to get paid. Then Condé Nast ruined it.

A reporter goes undercover in a Canadian factory to document the vulnerable people in the temporary workforce.

The internet is not pleased with start-up bros who want to “disrupt” bodegas.

What is Facebook *really* about? Surveillance and advertising, not about “the power to build community” as its new mission statement so disingenuously puts it.

How private detectives crack down on China’s rampant counterfeit industry.

The budding wind power industry is rich in jobs, and the people of south Louisiana are ready for clean energy.

In an excerpt from her upcoming book, Pao reveals the harassment and discrimination she experienced at a Silicon Valley venture firm.

Technology platforms rely on hijacking our attention. Can Apple help us win it back?

The photo sharing service has been creating tools and algorithms to let its users close comments and ban offensive words.

At Wired, Brendan Koerner takes a look into the mind of a mathematician-turned-hacker who milks slot machines around the world.

Was the Brillante Virtuoso attacked by pirates, or was it an inside job?

With America’s public lands and the world’s climate under attack, the outdoor industry needs leaders more than ever and Patagonia is out in front.

James Vlahos gave his father eternal life using a little bit of programming.

Who’s moving America’s (1.3 billion pounds of) cheese? The Dairy Management Institute

Alamo Drafthouse creator Tim League wants to make moviegoing fun again.

TheHudson Valley offers a glimpse of the ways deportations will effect America’s farm economy and food system.

There’s big money for fashion and beauty companies in encouraging the women of the world to emulate the French Girl.

Where’s the next generation of guitar heroes? The guitar industry misses you.

On Monocle’s tenth anniversary, one writer analyzes the magazine’s vision, business model, and what place this globalist outlet has in an age of increasing nationalism.

Is it because we don’t want to, because we can’t, or is there something else at play?

Michael Thevis built a lucrative pornography empire in the 1970s only to spend the rest of his life in prison.

In 2016, Wells Fargo paid a $185 million fine for alleged fraud on its own customers without an admission of guilt. Has anything changed?

Smartphones have altered the texture of everyday life, digesting many longstanding spaces and rituals, and transforming others beyond recognition.

Uber’s missteps and high-profile scandals have piled up since 2013. Here’s a timeline.