LITERARY INSIGHT from PRESENT & PAST " WHATWE’RE READING In a dusty swath of West Texas known as the Permian Basin, a historic oil boom is pushing U.S. production to record levels and bringing sudden wealth to local landowners – along with some thorny challenges. As they rush to invest, oil majors like Exxon Mobil are betting that this bonanza has staying power. Lone Star Rising Fortune
Most people forget about amusement parks once they’ve permanently closed their doors, but photographer Seph Lawless made those abandoned parks his top destination while working on his books, Bizarro . Eerie Photos Showcase Abandoned Midwest Theme Park WTMJ4 Milwaukee At most big companies, it’s pretty clear who the millionaires are: top executives, rainmakers, science whizzes with PhDs. But at China’s Sunny Optical Technology Group —whose stock has climbed faster than any other in MSCI Inc.’s global indexes over the past decade—the richest employees are just as likely to be factory workers, janitors and cafeteria chefs. A 9,500% Stock Surge Turns Janitors Into Millionaires in China Bloomberg authority’s promise to Foxconn to have all the land in hand by August 1, 2018, Sanders said there were two possibilities: “Either they sold Foxconn a bill of goods or they’ve retained the financial resources to make some huge offers.” Offers, one is tempted to say, that homeowners can’t refuse. ‘Blighted’ to MakeWay for Foxconn Belt Magazine Fatal accidents, off-the-books workers, a union once run by a mobster. The rogue world of one of New York’s major trash haulers... Hell OnWheels ProPublica “This is a textbook case of eminent domain abuse.” When he considered the local
The modern American shopping experience owes a lot to a city that has been derisively nicknamed Cow Town, USA... The place where Wendy’s hamburgers, Starbucks drinks, and Tide detergent underwent trials to see if they would play to the masses. It became famous for being so average. HowYour Mall Sausage Gets Made in Columbus, Ohio Racked How John Carreyrou battled corporate surveillance and intimidation to expose a multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley start-up as a fraud. The Reporter Who Took Down a Unicorn New York Magazine
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