A review of some of the bids to woo Amazon’s HQ2 to other cities and states shows it’s not all about the money. In some cases democracy itself is a bargaining chip.

The long read: Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off – but is there a real cost to talking rubbish?

The diesel emissions scandal has already cost Volkswagen 25 billion euros, and no end is in sight. But how did it start? In a corrugated iron shack in the forests of West Virginia, discovered by a tri...

The long read: Trump’s opponents are bitterly split. You can’t understand US politics today unless you understand the rift between liberals and leftwingers

Judge William Alsup taught himself to code for fun in the 1980s. Now he's the judge on Silicon Valley's biggest cases.

What if a drug could give you all the benefits of a workout?

The revelations in the Paradise Papers followed quickly on the release of the Panama Papers (English majors please note the allusion to the Pentagon Papers). Both of these Papers were revealed by an…

Four years ago I temporarily moved to Puerto Rico. I went to PR to seek the New American Dream, a dream that had swept through American business culture, launched a billion dollar self-help industry…