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Wall Street Hits the Locker Room

3 months 2 weeks ago
Private equity firms are maneuvering to invest in college athletes, their schools, and the conferences they play in. The deals could add risk to the whole system.
Luke Goldstein

Neighborhoods Play Hardball

3 months 2 weeks ago
For decades, wealthy owners and financiers have gotten cities to pay for their sports stadiums. It’s not so easy anymore.
Gabrielle Gurley

The Domination Tour

3 months 3 weeks ago
Four decades of intensifying corporate concentration turned the music industry into a wasteland of institutionalized control and abuse. Are antitrust enforcers ready to reckon with that?
Maureen Tkacik