Sublime

Increasing passenger traffic, Brown reasoned, was the one sure way to wean the airlines from postal subsidies. But public confidence could be inspired only by big, financially secure carriers committed to safety, maintenance, and training, not by the fly-by-night operators abounding at the time. Brown changed the rules so that the airlines received

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Finally, I asked Green what she thought of the world of NFTs. She said that her firm spent some time recently working on projects that they otherwise felt got neglected during their day-to-day work life. Green dedicated that time to digging into NFTs with her 11-year-old son. She bought a few. And she says Forerunner has made one or two unannounced... See more

Perkins spent the twelve years of Roosevelt’s presidency doing more than anyone other than FDR himself to make the New Deal a reality. Everything on her list became law, most notably social security, changing the basic relation of Americans to their government. She also desegregated the Labor Department cafeteria, tried (and failed) to bring large

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The temptation to overprint based on price breaks was recognized as a problem with a solution by an executive at Penguin in the early 1990s. Printing contracts were changed to charge a unit price based on the previous year’s “average” print runs, so there was no evident price break for larger reprint quantities. This saved the production department

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Another scandal was brewing, and it would become the fight of her career. She would stand accused of attempting to cover up a sexual assault and get suspended from her sport. Even the subreddit page for Cheer turned on her—thousands of strangers once united by fandom were now essentially unanimous in their scorn. “Monica is absolutely disgusting,” ... See more