HCA Healthcare is one of the world’s wealthiest hospital chains. It earned more than $7 billion in profits over the past two years. It is worth $36 billion. It paid its chief executive $26 million in 2019. But as the coronavirus swept the country, employees at HCA repeatedly complained that […]
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‘Corporate America Has Failed Black America’
Companies can use their clout to promote diversity in other creative ways, as well. Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs said it wouldn’t take a company public if it didn’t have at least one woman or minority on its board. Ms. Hobson was among those who called for companies to tie […]
Twitter Had Been Drawing a Line for Months When Trump Crossed It
OAKLAND, Calif. — Jack Dorsey was up late Thursday at his home in San Francisco talking online with his executives when their conversation was interrupted: President Trump had just posted another inflammatory message on Twitter. Tensions between Twitter, where Mr. Dorsey is chief executive, and Mr. Trump had been running […]
How Automated Background Checks Freeze Out Renters
This article was reported and written in collaboration with The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom investigating technology’s effects on society. Burglary and domestic assault in Minnesota. Selling meth and jumping bail in Kentucky. Driving without insurance in Arkansas. Disorderly conduct. Theft. Lying to a police officer. Unspecified “crimes.” Too many narcotics […]
Wealthiest Hospitals Got Billions in Coronavirus Bailout
A multibillion-dollar institution in the Seattle area invests in hedge funds, runs a pair of venture capital funds and works with elite private equity firms like the Carlyle Group. But it is not just another deep-pocketed investor hunting for high returns. It is the Providence Health System, one of the […]
A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question
To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Addison Cain was living in Kyoto, volunteering at a shrine and studying indigenous Japanese religion. She was supposed to be working on a scholarly book about her research, but started writing intensely […]
A Drug Company Wagers the U.S. Won’t Dare Charge It With Crimes
In the coming days, the Justice Department will make an important decision: whether to file criminal charges against one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies for allegedly colluding with rivals to inflate the prices of widely used drugs. The company, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, is betting that in the middle of […]
The Grapelord of Napa Faces a Threat Worse Than Plague
One balmy winter afternoon, Andy Beckstoffer, a grape grower who has done more than nearly anyone to shape the premium U.S. wine industry, was sitting in Mustard’s, a restaurant in Napa Valley that is a kind of clubhouse for the vintner class. Although Beckstoffer Vineyards, the largest private grower in […]
Reopening Has Begun. No One Is Sure What Happens Next.
The economy shut down almost overnight. It won’t start back up that way. Politicians and public health experts have sparred for weeks over when, and under what circumstances, to allow businesses to reopen and Americans to emerge from their homes. But another question could prove just as thorny — how? […]
How the Virus Transformed the Way Americans Spend Their Money
Change in credit and debit card spending The chart shows the percentage change in spending from the beginning of the year. Each line is an average of the previous two weeks, which smooths out weekly anomalies. | Source: Earnest Research The coronavirus has profoundly altered daily life in America, ushering […]