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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Under Review

When Hollywood Met China

Erich Schwartzel’s “Red Carpet” details the hazardous courtship of American entertainment companies and the Chinese government.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.