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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
Every winter, people would travel for hours to see something that used to happen in a forest in the Michoacán mountains of Mexico. The oyamel fir trees’ branches would buckle under the combined weight of tens of millions of monarch butterflies, which weigh less than a dime after traveling up…
Tim Sweeney operates Epic Games from a campus that once seemed to be the future of interactive entertainment, somewhere in Cary, North Carolina, a sleepy suburb that doesn’t look much like the hub of a billion-dollar gaming empire. Fortnite was making a lot of money. Everyone had a license for…
In desperate situations, a certain kind of hope emerges—not the cautious, well-reasoned kind, but the urgent kind, which arises when all other options have been exhausted. This urgency has found a new home in the West Bank, where the unemployment rate is approximately 18% and the Palestinian economy has been…