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How I Learned to cook again: A Culinary Tragedy

I ate at the best restaurants all the time. Then the pandemic happened, and I had to work my kitchen

Trading at The Speed of Shortwave

Companies say they can move data across oceans milliseconds faster than fiber optics

The Pandemic in Builders' Way

While politicians in Washington debate trillion-dollar infrastructure packages, states are canceling projects

The Meat of The Problem

Workers in this hyper-concentrated, functionally unregulated industry are extremely vulnerable to the pandemic

Not Your Grandmother's Milkman

Julia Niiro’s Portland startup takes its inspiration from old-fashioned dairy delivery and prioritizes paying producers

WELCOME BACK?

Consult this checklist before you ask anyone to head into the office

The Case For Quotas

They’ve helped women. Can quotas help change the racial makeup of C-suites and management?

Let Them Bake Bread

King Arthur, a 230-year-old flour company, ramped up production to meet the demands of a baking renaissance

When Jet Jockeys Get Grounded

Covid-19 has put thousands of pilots out of work and left many facing an earthbound future

Greener Pastures

“Novel farming,” which turns out pricey designer produce, isn’t hurt by shortages of water or migrant workers. It’s seeing a massive jump in demand

U.S. Health Care Flunks Its Most Important Exam

We spend $4 trillion a year, yet we were totally overwhelmed by Covid-19

The Trouble With Tracing Apps

From governments to big tech companies—everyone has a system, and no one’s happy about it

Why Drug Reps Are Prescribing Zoom

A business that’s long relied on face-to-face sales adopts social distancing in the Covid age

Better Cops? Or Fewer Cops?

Sweeping proposed reforms of American policing vie with calls to defund it

Call Centers Can't Simply Stay Home

Concern about data security, power outages, and poor internet service fuels a return to offices

What Are Investors Thinking?

The U.S. stock market has climbed back even with the country in crisis. Psychology is part of the story

Tweet Storm

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has chosen an interesting time to pick a fight with his most important user

The Shrimp Are Going Online

Small European companies that have embraced e-commerce have better odds of surviving the crisis

THE PARIAH SHIP

The cruise industry was already in a Covid-19 crisis when the MS Zaandam set sail. Yet Holland America was unprepared when people began to fall sick and country after country turned the ship away

The New Normal at An Indian Outsourcer

HCL has started bringing its 150,000 workers back to the office. It’s not business as usual

Liability Risks Come Back to Work, Too

Without a vaccine, some returnees will get sick, and businesses may end up in court

Dining Out For Democracy

A “yellow economy” has sprung up to cater to Hong Kongers who want greater autonomy from China

A Buyout Firm's Four-Legged Future

JAB made billions buying coffee brands. Now it wants to be the vet for the world’s pets

The World's Most Expensive Sibling Rivalry

Being the brother of Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man, is harder than you think

The Woman Who Can Sell Anything

Is Chinese live-streamer Viya, who sold about $425 million of goods in a day, retailing’s future?

Scanning the Sewers

Startup Biobot Analytics is testing swaths of Americans’ waste on behalf of local governments

FALL OUT

The pandemic has sent American workers plummeting into a safety net that wasn’t prepared to catch them

The Great Debt divide

In an economy hobbled by the pandemic, you can go bankrupt or you can borrow—a lot

Searching for Secrets In High- Altitude DNA

Variant Bio is hunting for rare genes that its researchers hope to turn into drugs and therapies, including some Covid-relevant ones

The economics of racism

Mainstream economics has many ideas about getting beyond racism. Which lessons apply in real life?