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Losing Paradise

Larry Ellison is making the Hawaiian island of lanai more hospitable to the extremely rich-and pushing out people who've lived there for generations

LEAVING A CHAR

Chefs are grilling salads and coaxing meat lovers to eat their veggies

An Industrial Stalwart Goes All-In on Niche Software

One of the highest-valued industrial stocks is industrial no more.

Are we having Fun Yet?

The makers of Axie Infinity pitched their crypto game as an engine for economic empowerment. It didn’t work out that way

The Women of Crypto

ELLE talked to 35 women about what it’s like to work in the scarcely regulated, wild, notoriously bro-y industry.

Inflation First Aid

Near record-high prices are likely to stick around all year, experts say. Here are creative ways to save on the everyday items that have gone up the most

PRESIDENT DeSANTIS?

THE OUTSPOKEN, WOKE-BATTLING REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA COULD OUT-TRUMP TRUMP ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Putin Thinks Smaller

U.S. officials say captured leader's war ambitions documents show the Russian and options-have shrunk

The Meryl Streep of TV

Jean Smart, star of HBO Max's comedy Hacks, can play just about anything

Killer Heat Is Here

The record temperatures ravaging India are a warning of global catastrophes to come

Opening the Spigot

Conservatives want to limit social media companies’ power to control content

Expanding Access to Mind Expansion

Companies offer guided drug trips on jungle retreats, at city clinics, and in your living room

Europe's Travel Rebound Wobbles

A staffing crisis at airlines, airports, and even the Chunnel left some operators overwhelmed

Pivoting to Troll

Elon Musk’s incessant posting may do wonders for his ego and clout in right-wing circles, but it has destroyed value pretty much everywhere else

The Nudge Conundrum

Ride-hailing companies are gaming drivers. Drivers are trying to game back. It hasn’t been a joyride

The Tech Issue: How It Started How It's Going

The market collapse isn't just the inevitable result of macroeconomic forces like high interest rates and inflation. It's also the best opportunity in more than a decade to reckon with the tech industry's excess

Where Oil Funds a New Deal

New Mexico is using a tax windfall to pay for moonshot social programs

Are We Still Doing Scooters?

Lime says people are scooting more than ever, but providing urban transit is a hard way to make unicorn-level profits

Bet On It

A Silicon Valley-backed startup wants to bring Wall Street-style trading to the outcome of events. Some regulators say that’s a terrible idea

You're Browsing All Wrong

A startup wants to discard the standard formula for the web browser

"You Know What's Cool?"

Facebook has spent a decade successfully ripping off its newer, hotter rivals. But this time, it tried to copy TikTok and blew up Instagram instead

RETHINKING FAIR PAY

Companies are overhauling compensation amid an uptick in relocations

MAKING CONTACT

Getting close enough to touch an animal usually isn't a great idea. But in a quiet lagoon on Mexico's Baja Peninsula, the whales are happy to oblige

BUILD BACKS BETTER

In a scoliosis market where treatments have changed little since the 1970s, even new brace technology shows how far we still have to go

The Teen Who Defied DeFi

How a young math whiz nabbed $16 million by exploiting decentralized finance | Index Finance was one of the great hopes of decentralized finance, the blockchain-based movement challenging Wall Street's gatekeepers. With one swift set of transactions, an 18-year-old math prodigy liquidated $16 million of its assets and opened a new legal frontier

Nigerian Projects Stall as Chinese Loans Dry Up

President Buhari's legacy could be marred by Beijing's waning appetite for costly public works abroad

The Twitter Deal's Big Debt Bill

If the acquisition goes through, the company will face mounting interest expenses as it tries to grow

The Very Last of Lehman Brothers

The bank whose collapse marked the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis is only mostly dead. Meet the people attending to its final remains

This Time Is Different

The slump that startups thought would never happen has arrived

Will American Owners Make Football More Like Football?

More than half of England's major soccer clubs will be backed by US money. That has fans worried