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A French Tuneup For German Cars

After years of losses with GM, Opel quickly turned profitable under Peugeot

The Venerable Game Maker Crafts Yet Another Comeback

Once again, the 130-year-old Japanese gaming giant has turned reports of its demise into Nintendo Mania

Life And Death On The Third Shift

The nightly dangers and horrors of cleanup at the slaughterhouse

Japan's Priests Turn To Property Development

Shrines are costly to maintain, and they occupy prime land“They need side businesses to make ends meet” 

Iranian Voters Want A Share Of The Weatlh

The nuclear deal hasn’t delivered rewards for many of the poor “Creating jobs, that’s what gives hope”

Give Me A Break

Katrina Onstad’s The Weekend Effect is a manifesto for the overworked masses

Seriously, Beware The 'Shadow Brokers'

The group’s NSA-quality malware release isn’t just another hack “This one’s the big one, but now it just gets lost in the noise”

Norway Ditches The 'Fossil Car'

 Cheap power and big subsidies have fueled an electric boom “The majority of the market is about to shift to EVs”

Time For Going Away Gifts?

Exiting the Paris accord would have grave consequences for the U.S.— and benefit other nations.

The Fog Lifts

The bull case for London, a year after Brexit.

Is The Corporate Bully The Next Workplace Pariah?

Nike’s ouster of a top executive casts a light on the hard-knuckled behavior common in many workplaces.

Paradise, Manufactured

The enormous $4 billion Baha Mar resort filed for bankruptcy in 2015, a failure before it ever welcomed a single guest. Now it’s open—and business is booming.

The Rithm Is Gonna Get You

MathBabe Cathy O’Neil is out to stop the Big Data monster.

Street Food In A Derelict Warehouse-That's What Londoners Call A Night Out

 London Union’s vibrant food markets turn unused spaces into nighttime destinations. “In London, anything that’s interesting gets priced out of the market right away”.

Raj Kapoor

The Silicon Valley veteran has a new plan: Save the world with electric cars.

New Kids On The Board

Companies are putting less experienced executives in boardrooms in favor of more diversity

Amazon's Other Jeff

Jeff Wilke, Bezos’ No. 2, talks AI plans and says his delivery business has plenty of ways to work around Trump.

Less Pesticide, More Bacteria (That's A Good Thing)

Indigo is turning microbes loose on Big Agriculture.

Unsolved Mysteries

The True Value of Bitcoin

How Tyson's Chicken Plant Became A Turkey

Despite offering 1,600 jobs, the company’s proposed facility got the cold shoulder from a Kansas town

Welcome To Crypto Valley

The Swiss town of Zug embraces digital currency. Some worry that the money might be a little too secret

A Chic Alpaca Brand Preserves Peru's Weaving Heritage

Ayni trains women in traditional methods to make luxury sweaters.

Plucked From The Desert

At the Smithsonian, the art of Burning Man charms in a new context. By James Tarmy

A First Nation For The 21st Century

A prosperous indigenous community near Vancouver has lots to teach Canada’s marginalized aboriginal groups

Smoke'Em Out

Mike Moore wrote the legal playbook that took down Big Tobacco. Now he’s going after the opioid industry.

Debt Crisis : Greece's Least Wanted Man Lives in Maryland

He fixed the country’s fake stats. Now he faces criminal charges.“This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic”

Forget Cord Cutters. QVC Lives On

The king of cable home shopping wants to become the Netflix of retailing

Airbus Outgrows Its European Home

There’s pressure to shift work away from its base to win political favor in new markets.

Want Some Crypto?

If you’re looking for zero-fee stocks, margin trading, and 24/7 Bitcoin buys, the founders of Robinhood have an app for you.

How to Win a Trade War With China

There’s a smart way to do it. But Trump seems intent on fighting a kind of enemy that no longer exists.