Could Trump's Financial Ties Have Influenced His Phone Call With Erdogan?
The president’s property in Istanbul looms over his interactions with Turkey’s leader, whether he wants it to or not.
Economy
The Silent Crisis of Retail Employment
What to do when department-store jobs—or mining and manufacturing jobs—go away
What Is Janesville, Wisconsin, Without General Motors?
Eight years after its GM assembly plant closed, the city of 63,500 is still trying to answer that question.
The Saga of North Carolina’s Contaminated Water
The state’s GOP leadership tried to make the state more business-friendly. Now residents are saying their water isn’t safe to drink.
How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All
Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer.
Puppy Love
The coddling of the American pet
How to Trick People Into Saving Money
Inside Walmart’s curious, possibly ingenious effort to get customers to build up their savings accounts
How the Tax-Filing Process Confuses Americans About Tax Policy
The vexed relationship people have with IRS forms tends to make them more conservative.
What Would It Take for Customers to Boycott United?
A new poll tested Americans’ threshold for avoiding the airline in the wake of its PR debacle.
Will Tesla Do to Cars What Apple Did to Smartphones?
The company’s fate rides on the answers to three unresolved questions about the auto industry’s future: driven or self-driving? Electric or gas? Private or shared?