Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution

How a Buffett family foundation quietly became the most influential supporter of research on IUDs, expanding access to the contraceptive and potentially changing the reproductive lives of millions of women.

Published: Jul 30, 2015
Length: 17 minutes (4,418 words)

Distressed Denim

Levi Strauss may have invented jeans, but yoga pants have fundamentally changed the market. Can the company win back their customer base?

Published: Jul 21, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,670 words)

This Is How Uber Takes Over a City

A chronicle of Uber’s intense battle to conquer Portland, as well as Uber’s political fight across the nation.

Published: Jun 23, 2015
Length: 15 minutes (3,800 words)

The Hunt for the Financial Industry’s Most-Wanted Hacker

The story of a malware known as ZeuS, and the hunt for its rogue creator.

Published: Jun 18, 2015
Length: 12 minutes (3,000 words)

What Is Code?

Paul Ford and Bloomberg Businessweek collaborate on a 38,000-word essay meant to answer the big and small questions of what it means to be a coder: how programming works, why it matters, and whether you should start learning yourself.

Author: Paul Ford
Published: Jun 11, 2015
Length: 152 minutes (38,000 words)

Larry Ellison Is Spending a Fortune to Save American Tennis

The Oracle billionaire takes over Indian Wells.

Published: Jun 4, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,660 words)

Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla

“In late October 2001, Elon Musk went to Moscow to buy an intercontinental ballistic missile.” An excerpt from Ashlee Vance’s new book, on how Musk almost went bankrupt trying to keep both SpaceX and Tesla afloat, all while his personal life was unraveling.

Published: May 15, 2015
Length: 35 minutes (8,873 words)

A League of His Own

A profile of the man The Guardian once called “the most successful non-homicidal dictator of the past century,” FIFA president Sepp Blatter. Blatter has controlled worldwide soccer for the past 17 years.

Published: Apr 30, 2015
Length: 19 minutes (4,770 words)

The Long, Strange Saga of the 180,000-Carat Emerald

The history of one of the world’s largest emeralds, rife with conmen, thieves and international intrigue.

Published: Mar 6, 2015
Length: 14 minutes (3,600 words)

The Failure of the U.S.’s Maternity Leave Policy

How did the United States fall so far behind in basic workplace protections for new parents?

Published: Jan 26, 2015
Length: 15 minutes (3,849 words)