Sublime

Sam thought CZ might be the richest person in the world. And CZ, to the people who supplied Sam with capital, seemed vulnerable. When Forbes looked at Sam in the fall of 2021, they saw the richest person in the world under the age of thirty. When the VCs looked at Sam, they saw the guy…

Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export lim

By the time Palin talked about “the real America,” it was in precipitous decline. The region where she spoke, the North Carolina Piedmont, had lost its three economic mainstays—tobacco, textiles, and furniture making—in a single decade. Local people blamed NAFTA, multinational corporations, and big government. Idle tobacco farmers who had owned and

AMERICAN ROYALTY

friend’s uncle had just been elected

raising the minimum wage, expanding early childhood education, capping executive pay, strengthening unions, and increasing paid parental leave.