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An Industrial Policy With U.S. Characteristics

Biden’s $4 trillion Build Back Better plan faces plenty of hurdles beyond Republicans

The Equality Issue – All in It Together? Yes and No

The pandemic has highlighted structural inequalities that have plagued society for decades

At Least There's One CovidProof Business Model in Art

Galleries are doing great. Museums? Not so much.

E3 The $500 Billion Bias Problem

How an unfair property-tax system blocks the building of Black wealth

How the SPAC Era Will End

A fever has swept Wall Street, and it’s stretching all the limits

E6 Try Making a Living on TikTok If You're Not White

Marketers are underpaying Black social media influencers even as they push Black Lives Matter

E8 Caste and the Indian Tech Ivies

IIT grads are highly sought after in Silicon Valley. Are they bringing deep-rooted prejudices with them?

E2 Tax Code So White

Dorothy Brown has spent her career documenting racism in a tax system that’s supposedly colorblind

E9 Chief Diversity Officers Are in High Demand

In the three months after the police killing of George Floyd touched off mass protests, new hires for chief diversity officers in S&P 500 companies jumped to as many as a dozen a month— almost triple the normal rate, according to research from executive recruiter Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. For many, it was their first diversity executive. “What’s different this time is that the whole world is focused on it,” says Tina Shah Paikeday, who leads the diversity and inclusion advisory practice at Russell Reynolds.

Where EVs Aren't Only For the Affluent

Rural China has become ground zero for the democratization of electric-vehicle ownership

China's Big Chill

Following its crackdown on star capitalist Jack Ma, entrepreneurs grow cautious

Can AstraZeneca Heal Itself?

Shortages, unclear trial data, and questions about efficacy have slowed the rollout of the company’s vaccine in Europe

Youyang Gu – Covid's Data Superstar

It was global public-health institutions vs. a guy living with his parents in California

The Hyperinflation Hype

Talk that the U.S. is going the way of Zimbabwe or Venezuela is bunk but bunk can move markets and influence policy

The Sheriff Wants a Word With Robinhood

Massachusetts regulator William Galvin says the free app is encouraging novice investors to trade themselves into trouble

The Geopolitics Of Chips

Taiwan and South Korea have amassed an uncomfortable degree of market power

THE SUPERCAR SPECIAL

Electrification is redefining what it means for a car to be extraordinary.

Tech's Latest Perk: Never See the Office

Silicon Valley companies are wooing executives with the promise of remote work forever

VACCINE CAPITALISM

Pfizer deserves every bit of the credit it’s receiving. But should a drug company decide who gets a shot?

GOD SAVE MY PUBS

Tim Martin is fighting to keep Wetherspoons, his working-class British chain, alive. His detractors would bid it good riddance

Can Clubhouse Keep The Party Going?

Silicon Valley’s hottest app is getting more than just money from its prominent investors

After a Grim Limbo, Hope

A migrant camp empties as Biden undoes Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy

A Puzzling Year

How the hottest company in jigsaws handled sudden and exponential growth

Money, It's Gotta Be the Shoes

Young resellers are wringing profits out of everything from the latest Yeezys to outlet-store leftovers—and turning sneakers into a bona fide asset class

A Crisis With No End in Sight

The opioid epidemic has worsened with Covid as overdoses reach new highs

The Greatly Exaggerated Death of (Some) Cities

Anticipating the end of the pandemic, U.S. homebuyers are looking to denser neighborhoods in smaller urban areas

The Gourmand Before Time

A book on prehistoric culinary evolution attributes a rare trait to Paleo man: taste By Howard Chua-Eoan

WHY TEXAS BROKE

The state is famous for its energy industry. But a winter storm left millions without power and water. How did things go so wrong—and what, if any, will change?

Impact Investing Heads East

A Buffett grandson’s company is selling rich Asians on the idea of doing well by doing good

Fortress Washington

The barricading of the U.S. Capitol, after years of stepped-up security in D.C., fuels the push for statehood