Cities Have to Get Creative When Uber and Lyft Won't Release Trip Data
Researchers must devise workarounds, sometimes even recording the cost and travel time of their own rides.
Economy
The State of the Food Industry Is Rotten
A new Netflix documentary series tries to shine a light on how corporate malfeasance and fraud affects everything we eat.
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.
It Is Silly Season in the Land of Cryptocurrency
The excitement about bitcoin and blockchain is sort of like the dot-com bubble—if nobody in 2000 was quite sure what the internet was for.
If Google Were Mayor
A sister company of the tech giant wants to help develop—and then collect data on—a waterfront neighborhood in Toronto.
A Tiny Texas Town Takes a Chance on Medical Marijuana
Schulenburg, with fewer than 3,000 residents and a polka museum, seems an unlikely place for some of the state’s first legal sales of the drug.
Health Care Just Became the U.S.'s Largest Employer
In the American labor market, services are the new steel.
The New York Times's Glenn Thrush Dilemma
A top leader at the newspaper says it took an ultra-nuanced approach in deciding how to handle allegations against a star reporter.
America's Rural Hospitals Are Dangerously Fragile
Consolidation in the health-care industry is threatening small and independent hospitals and the communities they're in.
The Black and Hispanic Unemployment Rates Don't Deserve Applause
President Trump lauded them and then claimed credit for their positive developments in the past year. He was doubly mistaken.