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Inside Beirut’s Fight To Save Its Reading Culture
“As reading declines and self-censorship grows, bookshops are shuttering in the city once hailed as the Arab world’s publishing capital.”
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A Vintage Watch Broke Auction Records. Then the Rumours Started.
“As demand for luxury watches has rocketed, the business has become beset by skulduggery.”
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Inside the “Broletariat Revolution”
“Tech elites hate the media. So they’re taking a page from Fox News.”
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The Spectacular Burnout of a Solar Panel Salesman
“He thought he’d make millions of dollars selling solar panels door-to-door. The reality was much darker.”
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Walmart Wants to Be Something for Everyone in a Divided America
“The world’s largest retailer has built an Apple-esque corporate campus in Bentonville, is selling Gucci online, and is playing nice with Trump. Will any of it work?”
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The Next Drug Epidemic Is Blue-Raspberry Flavored
“How Galaxy Gas became synonymous with the country’s burgeoning addiction to gas.”
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Lost Vegas
“Everyone inside America’s most flailing destination city has a theory for what’s wrong. Now I have my own.”
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Parks and Degradation: The Mess at Yosemite
“Chemical spills, a ceiling collapse, indoor bears. Employees and park superfans blame the hospitality company Aramark.”
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Meet The New Kingpin
“With the rise of Bowlero, private equity has come for bowling — will your neighborhood alley ever be the same?”
