People Who Pay People to Kill People
The twisted logic behind hiring a hit man
Movie-Prop Cash Is Fooling Cashiers
The strange psychology of why so many people fail to notice obviously counterfeit money
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible.
James Holzhauer Explains the Strategy Behind His Jeopardy Winning Streak
There are three things that give the seemingly unstoppable contestant an advantage—and this isn’t the first time he’s succeeded on a game show.
Jeopardy Wasn’t Designed for a Contestant Like James Holzhauer
“James’s performance, I’m sure, is causing grief for an accountant somewhere.”
Stock Picks From Space
Investors are using real-time satellite images to predict retailers’ sales. Is that cheating?
Watch Your Wallet
Why pickpockets love our digitally distracted age
Trump Once Proposed Building a Castle on Madison Avenue
A brief history of the president’s unfulfilled architectural dreams
How the Bizarre Economics of Airplanes Raises the Stakes of the Boeing Fallout
Strange things can happen when a business is based on millions of people flying around in $100 million metal boxes that can take a year to build.
Why Urban Millennials Love Uniqlo
Will the rest of America learn to love it too?
Why Americans Don’t Cheat on Their Taxes
The weirdly hopeful story of how the U.S. came to be a leader in tax compliance
Workplace Theft Is on the Rise
As the line between work and home blurs, office supplies attract sticky fingers.
Why Ford Hired a Furniture Maker as CEO
In the car of the future, you may care more about how the driver’s seat swivels than how the engine purrs.
The Media’s Post-Advertising Future Is Also Its Past
Why the news is going back to the 19th century
Fighting Nazis for a Living
How growing up in the South during the 1960s and 1970s influenced Richard Cohen’s trajectory as a lawyer
Amazon's Autodidact Streak
In her job as the director of learning sciences, Candace Thille has found a way to make a job out of the thing she is most passionate about.
Building a Chinese-Food Empire
After a series of jobs in the food industry, Andrew Cherng teamed up with his dad to create the well-known chain.
The First Black Woman to Lead the Heritage Foundation
How Kay Coles James parlayed her experience at Hampton University and in the George W. Bush administration into a job at a conservative think tank
Did Free Pens Cause the Opioid Crisis?
What Big Pharma knows about people’s hardwired instinct to reciprocate when given a gift
Lessons From a Failing Company
Leigh Radford is now a vice president at Procter & Gamble, but she started her career at companies in turmoil.