Investigations
The Post Office privately prosecuted more than 900 sub-postmasters on faulty Horizon accounting data it had internally logged as buggy for years, then watched Fujitsu keep winning UK government contracts through the scandal that followed.
Investigations
As Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to federal felonies and collapsed under opioid litigation, the family that owned it withdrew more money from the company than it ultimately agreed to pay back.
Investigations
A single German worker on an average salary hands over 46.6 percent of their total labor cost to the state before a euro reaches their account — income tax and social contributions combined, second highest in the OECD, beaten only by Belgium.
Reallocated
A single AI datacenter chip from Nvidia sells for somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000. A gaming graphics card from the same company sells for $299 to $1,999 — when you can find one at all. Nvidia's own CEO has said the quiet part out loud, and
Investigations
Clean air and a stable climate are, by any reasonable definition, nice things — free ones, in fact, that every human on Earth was born with a claim to. Figuring out who's spent that inheritance, and who's currently still spending it, turns out to require three separate
Policy Updates
Google Photos launched in 2015 with a promise that felt almost reckless in retrospect: unlimited free storage for every photo and video you'd ever take, forever, at "high quality." On November 11, 2020, Google announced that promise had an expiration date after all — June 1, 2021
Revoked
Chase, like most card issuers, dangled a large welcome bonus to pull in new Sapphire cardholders, with one rule limiting how often any one person could collect it: not within 48 months of the last time they'd earned it. That rule survived for years. In June 2025, Chase
Corporate Memo
Kickstarter once offered its employees unlimited vacation — no cap, no tracking, take what you need. In September 2015, the company admitted the policy had backfired so thoroughly that it replaced "unlimited" with a mandatory minimum. The problem with infinite vacation, it turns out, is that nobody can tell
Policy Updates
In June 2020, New York City let restaurants build outdoor dining setups on sidewalks and in traffic lanes with almost no red tape, a genuine emergency lifeline that the city itself credits with saving roughly 90,000 jobs. Four years later, the "almost no red tape" part was
Investigations
E-commerce retailers spent the last decade streamlining damage claims into something almost frictionless: send a photo of the torn or wrong item, get refunded, keep the item, no box to ship back. Late in 2025, Scott Tannen, CEO of the New Jersey bedding company Boll & Branch, went public
Discontinued
Reddit's API had been effectively free since 2008, which is how an entire ecosystem of third-party apps — some of them better than Reddit's own official app — got built on top of it for free, for fifteen years. In April 2023, Reddit announced it would start
Revoked
For years, Venmo's default setting broadcast who you paid, when, and often why — a public social feed built on top of a payment app, as if splitting a pizza bill were content. The FTC eventually decided that "bank-grade security" and "your transactions are private&