My Appetites
“On eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer, and pandemics.”
An Oral History of ‘Center Stage’
“How 24 pairs of leather pants, a tearaway tutu, and red pointe shoes made for a generation’s greatest dance movie.”
Shell Is Looking Forward
The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change. I went to a private planning meeting and took notes.
Garbage Language: Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
Let’s drop a pin in this and take it off-line so we can futureproof the intiative with these key learnings and co-create innovative win-wins that require an omni-channel push but no critical ask. Actually, let’s not.
The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge
A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?
The Battle of Grace Church
What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.
Cain and Abel and Oil
This might strike you as a wildly self-serving theory: that the epic rift tearing apart this preposterously wealthy family was the fault not of the lifelong ne’er-do-well, who’d spent four decades partying his way through a family fortune, but of his outwardly much more responsible and sober brother, who had run the family business for over a decade. More than that: that the responsible, sober one was actually reckless, vindictive, manipulative, and untrustworthy even with those who knew him best. And even more: that the final break came when the supposedly responsible one engineered an elaborate conspiracy to frame his brother involving a henchman and two corrupt cops.
The I in We
How WeWork — a company based on founder Adam Neumann’s vision of a “capitalist kibbutz” — became a sleek, dystopian, mammoth-sized tech unicorn.
Before, and After, the Jogger
The real rapist in the Central Park Five case attacked many other women. The survivors speak for the first time.
Marriage: An Investigation
A multi-article package looking at the institution of marriage from a variety of angles, and through the experiences of an assortment of couples.