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The New Yorker Radio Hour
Will the Government Put the Reins on Amazon?
The tech giant is a monopoly that harms consumers and merchants, according to a federal lawsuit. Plus, the director Emerald Fennell discusses her latest film, “Saltburn.”
The Sporting Scene
How the Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty Changed the W.N.B.A.
The two franchises, now facing each other in the league’s Finals, have built great teams—and sometimes bent the rules—with unapologetic spending and fierce competitiveness.
By Louisa Thomas
Our Columnists
The Powerful New York Law That Finally Brought Trump to Book
In investigating the former President, New York’s attorney general relied on legislation passed at the behest of one of her Republican predecessors, Jacob Javits.
By John Cassidy
L.A. Postcard
Kris Jenner Cleans Up
The reality-television personality co-hosts a dinner party to show off her (lucrative) new plant-powered cleaning brand. Scent? Linens laundered by somebody else.
By Sheila Yasmin Marikar
The Front Row
“BlackBerry,” Like the BlackBerry, Never Reaches Its Potential
The business drama has documentary-like enticements but remains a stranger to its characters.
By Richard Brody
Infinite Scroll
Is This the End of Elon Musk’s Twitter Odyssey?
By offering to step down as C.E.O., Musk may be admitting that a social network can’t be a one-man show.
By Kyle Chayka
Daily Comment
Whom Do Credit-Card-Rewards Programs Really Reward?
The Durbin-Marshall bill targets a system of inflated fees that swell the profits of the country’s biggest banks.
By James Lardner
Annals of Communications
The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set
The media startup Puck is aiming to build a business by covering power and wealth from the inside.
By Clare Malone
Under Review
When Hollywood Met China
Erich Schwartzel’s “Red Carpet” details the hazardous courtship of American entertainment companies and the Chinese government.
By Jane Hu
Dispatch
The Upstart Union Challenging Starbucks
Baristas nationwide are remarkably organized. Is the company’s C.E.O., Howard Schultz, using firings, store closures, and legal delays to thwart them?
By E. Tammy Kim
Culture Desk
How Victoria’s Secret Created the American Fantasy Woman
A documentary series directed by Matt Tyrnauer examines the behind-the-scenes story of the lingerie company and the billionaire at its helm, Leslie Wexner, who had close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
By Naomi Fry
Afterword
The Extremely Large Life of a Suntan-Lotion Mogul
Curiously, Ron Rice was not a tan man, but, with Hawaiian Tropic, he became the king of tan.
By Susan Orlean
Q. & A.
Why Elon Musk Bought Twitter
The social network’s freewheeling poster child will pay forty-four billion dollars to take it private. What does he have in store?
By Isaac Chotiner
U.S. Journal
What Returning to Work Means in the Nail Salons of Orange County
Tens of thousands of people work in nail salons in Southern California. After two, often devastating, years, many of their customers still haven’t returned.
By Oliver Whang
Currency
Can Companies Force Themselves to Do Good?
A new kind of corporate structure, the perpetual-purpose trust, can make the values of pro-social companies permanent.
By Nick Romeo
Letter from Fuling
China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class
My students from the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they’re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.
By Peter Hessler
Culture Desk
Trader Joe Wrote a Memoir
The book is a sort of “Kitchen Confidential” for the grocery business, but without the drugs or rage.
By Carrie Battan
Currency
What’s Next for the Campaign to Break Up Big Tech?
A judge recently dismissed two antitrust cases against Facebook. But what appeared to be a setback for the effort may actually provide a road map for how it can succeed.
By Sheelah Kolhatkar
Infinite Scroll
Great Jones Cookware and the Illusion of the Millennial Aesthetic
Can a company that loses all of its staff still manufacture a sense of community? So long as the Instagram posts keep coming, the answer seems to be yes.
By Kyle Chayka
Letter from Silicon Valley
The Pied Piper of SPACs
Chamath Palihapitiya says that the investment tool lets ordinary people get rich off startups. It may be hype—but hype can be its own economic engine.
By Charles Duhigg