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.
Distressed Denim
Levi Strauss may have invented jeans, but yoga pants have fundamentally changed the market. Can the company win back their customer base?
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.
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.
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.
Larry Ellison Is Spending a Fortune to Save American Tennis
The Oracle billionaire takes over Indian Wells.
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.
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.
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.
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?