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Berlin Braces For a Dark Winter

The city is speeding the shutdown of 19th-century gas lanterns while citizens scramble to stay warm

The Mighty Dolomiti

The Italian side of the Alps is undergoing an Olympic-size transformation

Go Ripping Down That Hill

Racing legend Bode Miller has been trying to make the perfect skis for 15 years. He finally did it

From Ski to Shining Sea

In the mountains around Alaska's Prince William Sound, there are no roads or trails. This is skiing's final frontier, and the only way to get there is by boat

Rebuilding the Nation

While the US government stood by, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma lost vast amounts of land. Sometimes it was through theft; other times it was just business. The Osage are clawing the land back tract by tract

Exodus

Exxon was once the paragon of a coveted career in corporate America. The pandemic has torn that apart

America’s Energy Conundrum

High prices pose a political risk at home, but allies abroad are desperate for aid

Unleashing the Economic Arsenal

The US uses an increasingly intricate array of measures against its biggest global rivals

Goldman Sachs Rethinks Retail

The elite bank’s effort to build a consumer brand has been expensive

The Classic Hedge Fund Is Stuck

Equity managers haven’t provided the kind of bear market buffer clients had hoped for

Elon Meets His Match

He’s been able to bend reality to his whim. Delaware contract law looks to be the exception

Cracks in the Foundation

Musk’s play for Twitter has damaged an already shaky company, and there’s no easy path to recovery

UK Retailers Are in Christmas Crisis Mode

The race is on to persuade cost-conscious holiday shoppers to spend earlier than ever

The Online Shopping Bust

E-commerce companies made a costly bet that the pandemic would permanently change consumer behavior

Lessons From The Volcker Shock

The Fed had to inflict a lot of pain in the ’80s to convince markets it was serious about slaying inflation

Can Frank Gehry Interest You in a Condo?

The very famous architect looks to put a very large stamp on one of North America's biggest building booms

Jack Owoc – ‘I Am ENERGY'

Jack Owoc—entrepreneur, frequent litigant, Florida Man—didn’t just invent the energy drink Bang, he embodies it. Now his caffeine empire is teetering

Monumental

Nothing can prepare you for a visit to Michael Heizer’s epic artwork in the middle of the harsh Nevada desert

HOMEBUYER HELL

A growing number of hackers are intercepting people’s down payments as they purchase a new home

Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere

The $100 billion invested in the driverless-vehicles industry has mostly taken us in circles, according to an emerging consensus of experts-and the Trump-pardoned guy who invented it

High Fashion At 7,900 Feet

A Colorado secondhand store shows how to serve a global clientele with a local business

Organizing Lobstermen

A union that boosts boat crews’ bargaining power offers a model for the gig economy

Europe’s Huge, Unusable Gas Field

Earthquake risks mean the Dutch are unwilling to plug the Russia-related energy shortfall

The Great Bitcoin Jailbreak

Feds seized a storage device full of ill-gotten tokens. And then someone started stealing them

How Britain’s Bond Market Almost Toppled

○ Pension funds use derivatives to reduce risk—but the strategy backfired when interest rates spiked

Politicians Are Stuck With Facebook

For campaigns seeking to advertise on social media, there aren’t other good options

Silicon Valley Doesn’t Want To Share

Customers expect their products to work well together. They often don’t

Rebooting Adidas

The shoemaker is looking for a new CEO who can steer both the brand and the bottom line

Can Pfizer Repeat Its Covid Success?

The pharma giant sees a new era, but competitors are circling, and skeptics abound

Twitter's Turn

With a lawsuit looming, Elon Musk decides to go through with his Twitter purchase—for now at least