Derek Thompson
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Busting the Myth of ‘Welfare Makes People Lazy’
Cash assistance isn’t just a moral imperative that raises living standards. It’s also a critical investment in the health and future careers of low-income kids.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Gary Cohn Reaches the Breaking Point
Trump’s top economic advisor almost quit after the president’s handling of Charlottesville. Now he’s resigning over a populist rebellion in the White House.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The GOP's Tax-Cut Narrative Is Already Unraveling
The law’s role in boosting wages was overblown. Its deficits are scaring investors. And fears that it might accelerate inflation could push the Federal Reserve to choke off growth.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters One Simple Way Trump Can Get the Economic Growth He Wants
He isn’t going to like it: It’s more immigration.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why Are Corporations Finally Turning Against the NRA?
The politicization of the public sphere is compelling nonpartisan companies to take one partisan stand after another.
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Steve Nesius / AP The Most Expensive Comment in Internet History?
A new book pieces together the strange legal saga that was sparked by a 2007 Gawker post outing the billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel.
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Gabrielle Lurie / Reuters Airbnb and the Unintended Consequences of 'Disruption'
Tech analysts are prone to predicting utopia or dystopia. They’re worse at imagining the side effects of a firm's success.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images Donald Trump's Language Is Reshaping American Politics
Republicans—and some liberals—downplay the significance of the president’s outbursts. But his words are quietly radicalizing both the left and right, with untold consequences for the future of policy.
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Mark Schiefelbein / AP What Investors Really Fear
The specter of inflation—that ever-feared and never-appeared boogeyman—is haunting Wall Street.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Amazon-ification of Whole Foods
There’s a broader strategy behind two-hour delivery for heirloom tomatoes.
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters Where Did All the Advertising Jobs Go?
For the first time on record, the number of people working in the industry is declining during an economic expansion.
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Spencer Platt / Getty The Stock Market Just Took a Historic Nosedive—Why?
Sudden stock crashes are notoriously difficult to explain. But rising wages and incipient inflation seem to be scaring investors.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How Immigration Became So Controversial
Does the hot-button issue of 2018 really split the country? Or just the Republican Party?
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Reuters Why NFL Ratings Are Plummeting: A Two-Part Theory
Televised football has a problem with both form (television) and content (football).
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Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Are Going to Fix Health Care—Somehow
The ambition is thrilling. The details are scarce.
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Eric Gay / AP Who Bankrupted Toys 'R' Us? Blame Private Equity and Millennial Parents
The retail apocalypse for legacy brick-and-mortar companies has come to the toy business.
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Sara Hylton / Reuters Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America
Corporate goliaths are taking over the U.S. economy. Yet small breweries are thriving. Why?
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Is This the Beginning of the End of the Bitcoin Bubble?
The cryptocurrency was meant to be stateless and leaderless. Ironically, the culprits of its latest plunge are ... state leaders.
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Jim Young / Reuters Diet Coke's Moment of Panic
The problem with the soda is right there in the name: It’s neither healthy-seeming enough to thrive as a diet drink nor tasty enough to thrive as a cola.
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Reuters The Brutal Math of Gender Inequality in Hollywood
Of the top 250 films of 2017, 88 percent had no female directors, 83 percent had no female writers, and 96 percent had no female cinematographers.
