Business

What Would Warren Do?

The Sage of Omaha has redefined the idea of value investing. But will its principles survive his inevitable passing?

What’s Good for GM

The Elusive Green Economy

Barack Obama is preaching the gospel of clean energy. Can he succeed where Jimmy Carter failed?

Home Economics

Even in a depression, it seems, Americans won’t stop feathering their nests.

The Newsweekly’s Last Stand

Why The Economist is thriving while Time and Newsweek fade

Twilight of the Newsweeklies

Michael Hirschorn talks to Bob Cohn about why the current age spells doom for Time and Newsweek, but not for The Economist

Currency Exchange

Michael Bierut analyzes the world’s best and worst banknote designs

Do CEOs Matter?

Apple’s stock rises and falls with the faintest rumors about Steve Jobs's health. But how much influence do CEOs really have?

Hope Floats

As the recession blows a gale, the world’s most expensive cruise ship nears completion.

Fashion in Dark Times

As the ever-frivolous industry enters a new era, customers are thinking more—a prospect that thrills the best designers

Sink and Swim

Bankruptcy helps the undeserving—and that’s the way it should be.

Why I Fired My Broker

With his 401(k) in ruins, our correspondent visits investment gurus, hedge fund managers, and a freakish Arizona survivalist with one question in mind: How can the ordinary investor recover?

The Quiet Coup

How bankers took power, and how they're impeding recovery

The Fed's Cash Machine

The fiscal stimulus is puny compared with the actions the Fed has been taking behind closed doors.

The Gift-Card Economy

For some people, spending just doesn’t come naturally—especially in a recession. Behavioral economists have a solution

The Con Game

Jeffrey Goldberg tells Bob Cohn why he bought gold, stocked up on lanterns, consulted a survivalist—and finally fired his broker.

Disassembly Line

Closing an auto factory is almost as complicated as building cars

Macroegonomics

Economic policy makers thought they had tamed the business cycle. Not quite. Let’s hope their hubris doesn’t get in the way of our economic recovery

Quick Study

The freest market; lottery melancholy

Dirty Sexy Money

Is porn recession-proof?

End Times

Can America’s paper of record survive the death of newsprint? Can journalism?

Why Wall Street Always Blows It

And why we never learn from the last bubble

Pop Psychology

Why asset bubbles are a part of the human condition that regulation can’t cure

The Case for Debt

Public anxiety over “excessive” consumer debt has a long, and misguided, history. By Virginia Postrel

The Great Depression

Atlantic articles from the 1930s reveal how Americans reinvented banking, restructured the economy, and dealt with challenges unsettlingly parallel to those of today.

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Miami: The Next Big Start-Up City?

How the city became a center for innovation

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A Brief History of Romantic Comedies

From The Atlantic's Chris Orr

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Life in 'the New Arctic'

A moving portrait of a fading landscape

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The Rise of New York City

A fascinating look at Manhattan in the 1940s

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What Is Methane Hydrate?

"Flaming ice" is a vast natural energy source

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NASA's Time-Lapse of the Sun

Now with epic dubstep music

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Shaken Not Tuned: Cocktail Experiments

Can a tuning fork improve a cocktail?

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Is He Cheating? A 1950s Guide

'That little blonde secretary from the office?’

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New Yorkers: Vintage Vacuum-Tube Amps

Risking electric shock to restore old amplifiers

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The DIY Piano-Bicycle

Everybody needs a hobby

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What Does It Take to Make Real Craft Gin?

Tour the Green Hat Gin distillery

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Letter From the Editor

The June 2013 issue

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What Straights Can Learn From Same-Sex Couples

New insight from decades of research

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The End of the Mall Rat

A tribute to that pillar of teen culture

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