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When Same-Day Delivery Is Too Slow

Gopuffis trying to outrace its competitors in the “dark convenience store” business

The Most Broken Business in America

Biden’s Build Back Better plan may make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don’t go belly up first

Strongmen? Us?

Don’t let their confidence fool you: Xi, Putin, and other authoritarians are increasingly vulnerable at home

The Gucci Girlfriend

A love affair with Sheree McLaughlin led fashion scion Maurizio Gucci to leave his wife—a decision that would get him killed. As audiences ready for Ridley Scott’s retelling in House of Gucci, McLaughlin shares her story for the first time.

Crypto's Regulation Fix: We'll Handle It

Execs say traditional agencies don’t have the tools or expertise to oversee the sector alone

Ghost at the Controls

Boeing insisted pilots didn’t need expensive training for the new 737 Max and wouldn’t have trouble diagnosing software errors midflight. Then Maxes started pointing themselves toward the Earth. Adapted from the new book Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing, by Peter Robison

Xi's Great Moderation

The Chinese leader wants to downsize the real estate sector, even if it means sacrificing economic growth

There's a Blockchain App for That

○ The technology is being used for digital health passports, banking, and gaming

Teaching Digital Currencies Not to Guzzle

Alternatives to “mining” augur power-sipping coins

Rivian's Success Is a Tribute to Tesla

Why is a company with no sales worth $130 billion? Belief in EVs

Retailers Gain The Upper Hand

○ Supply chain disruptions will mean fewer deep discounts for shoppers this Christmas

GM's Exit From India Hits a Roadblock

The long-delayed sale of its plants to a Chinese company faces local labor and political opposition

Fortnite Hits The Wall

○ China wants kids playing fewer video games, which is bad news for the companies making them

Are Boeing and Airbus Flying Into a Bubble?

They’re launching freighters just as competition from retrofitted jets and cargo space on passenger planes is heating up

We're Not There Yet

To end the pandemic, we need more vaccinations—not just new pills

The Youth Time Bomb

Youth unemployment surged with the Covid crisis and remains stubbornly high in many countries

Congress Just Can't Quit Facebook

Lawmakers of both parties assail the tech giant but are hooked on its core product

Togo Showed The World A Better Way To Do Stimulus

When lockdowns deprived millions of their livelihoods, even the poorest countries found new ways to send their people cash. Could this presage a new relationship between government and citizens?

The Vaccine's Last Mile Problem

India is racing to vaccinate its villages, including many in remote and desperately poor areas where suspicion of the government’s motives runs deep

The House That Zillow Built

A crisis at the company shows the risks of replacing good judgment with tech

Hey, Google, Find Some Water for My Cows

Earth Engine, a data analysis service, is helping people around the world in ways simple satellite imaging can’t

THE ANTI-WOKE INVESTORS

New ETFs are pitching themselves to conservatives mad at corporate America

Cars? Jobs? Yes Maybe

Lordstown, Ohio, is getting a new factory making batteries for electric vehicles, but it will employ less than one-third as many workers as the auto plant it’s replacing

Cheese Without Cows

An emerging technology promises vegan alternatives that are as gooey and pungent as the original

Ransomware HQ

Moscow’s tallest tower houses multiple companies that experts say are using Bitcoin to launder money

UPS Is Winning the Delivery Wars

FedEx’s nonunion workers and contractor drivers were supposed to give it an edge. Nope

Now Crypto Is Barking at Me

The Shiba Inu coin craze sparks demand for the namesake puppies

The Real PayoffFrom China's Covid Vaccines

Its drugmakers hope exports of coronavirus shots will lead to sales of inoculations for other diseases

India's Fintech Boom

A government-backed system of digital payments has set offa wave of innovation

Two Afghanistans, One Diplomat's Seat

The Taliban want the UN to recognize their ambassador. The old ambassador isn’t budging