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Gretchen Ertl / Reuters How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism
The sociologist Margaret Hagerman spent two years embedded in upper-middle-class white households, listening in on conversations about race.
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Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters Why Kids Want Things
A conversation with a researcher who has studied materialism for almost 30 years
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Tursk Aleksandra / timquo / Shutterstock / Katie ... The Most Dystopian Marketing Stunt Ever?
KFC is promising $11,000 to the first baby named after Colonel Sanders and born on his birthday.
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Di Studio / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Problem With ‘Hey Guys’
A broad coalition of English speakers—teachers, retail workers, ice-cream scoopers, and plenty of others—is grasping for a more inclusive greeting.
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Tahreer Photography / Getty Phones Are Changing the Texture of Family Life
Many parents think teens are too absorbed by screens. Teens agree.
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Paul Morigi / Getty The Ivy League School That Won't Talk About Its Most Famous Graduate
The University of Pennsylvania wanted a president. Trump was the one it got.
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Rafael Marchante / Reuters Europe's Message to Silicon Valley: Tech Is Not Special
The EU's highest court ruled that Uber isn’t just an app—it's a transportation company.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Where Were Netflix and Google in the Net-Neutrality Fight?
Big tech firms have gone from pushing for open-internet protections to being powerful enough not to need them.
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Sean Gallup / Getty The Secrets That Product Packaging Reveals About Retail
“Tuna in a pouch was a huge disrupter,” and other observations from the editor of the trade publication Packaging Digest
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George Frey / Getty Patagonia, REI, and the Politics of 'The President Stole Your Land'
Brands are aware that in a hyper-partisan climate, it can be conspicuous not to weigh in on heated debates.
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Alan Diaz / AP Why CVS Wants to Buy Aetna
One reason has to do with the economics of health care. The other has to do with the economics of brick-and-mortar retail in 2017.
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Mike Ehrmann / Getty Governments Don’t Stand a Chance Against Rich People Who Don’t Like Taxes
After each big financial leak, individuals suffer the brunt of the consequences, but the system remains intact.
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Rebecca Blackwell / AP How Can the U.S. Spend So Much on Men’s Soccer and Still Be So Bad?
On a day when fans are grasping for explanations, there’s a hunt for some economic ones.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Why Investors Bet on Gun Sales After a Mass Shooting
Following the massacre in Las Vegas, firearm manufacturers saw their stock prices edge up.
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Mandel Ngan / Getty The Cozy, Overcrowded, Keg-Filled Future of Work
The ethos of togetherness promoted by companies such as WeWork is essentially a bet on explosive population growth in the world’s metropolises.
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Netflix Not a Regular Cease-and-Desist, A Cool Cease-and-Desist
A letter from a Netflix lawyer proves that even the coldest of writing forms is not immune to the imperative of having a corporate “voice.”
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How the Hotel Industry Views Its Future (and Airbnb)
A conversation with the editor of Hotels, a trade publication covering full-service and luxury lodging
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Amr Dalsh / Reuters The Future of Retail Is Stores That Aren’t Stores
“Honey, I’m about to run to the town square—you need anything?”
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Marcos Brindicci / Reuters How the Meat Industry Thinks About Non-Meat-Eaters
A conversation with the editor of Meatingplace, a trade publication covering the business of turning live animals into food
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Why Amazon Is Such a Threat to the Grocery Industry
How could a price drop at a chain with fewer than 500 stores scare a market with 38,000 of them?
