How the Pacheco family business pivoted from bread baking to burying bodies in El Salvador, which has the highest murder rate per capita on the planet, “enough for the World Health Organization to classify it as an epidemic.”
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The Rise and Fall of Delia’s, The Catalog That Ruled America
When malls still ruled retail, a fashion brand for young women defied pre-internet era practice: It had no brick and mortar stores, only a catalog. It became the hottest thing around, selling a lifestyle as much as products, and its business model foretold the future. So why did it fail?
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
How Covid-19 Could Reshape Urban Life
Cities were vibrant, culturally rich places to live before the pandemic. We can only speculate about how cities will be after.
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Longreads Best of 2018: Business Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business writing.
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Shades of Grey
In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?
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The Problem With Crime Junkie
One of the hottest podcasts in the country has built a seven-figure business telling stories about true crime. Too bad the tales aren’t its own.
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Caring Without Touching
“Everything about the way we work has been transformed.” Gavin Francis talks about life as a Scottish doctor during COVID-19.
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Five Dimes
Online betting made an American expat named Sean Creighton into one of the richest people in Costa Rica, and a savvy business strategy helped him avoid detection from authorities. But after he was kidnapped, no one can say for sure if he was taken for ransom, or if he faked his death in order to […]
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Great American Wasteland
I am of that bit of earth. So I will not let it go. I show up in the small ways I can, which is talking to people, which is why I tell this to you.
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Paul Clarke Wants to Live
When a promising student left a neighborhood full of heroin for the University of Pennsylvania, it should have been a moving story. But what does an at-risk student actually need to thrive — or even just to survive?
