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Apple's 2012 third-generation iPad brought the Retina display, A5X chip, and 4G LTE. The specs that made the iPad 2's screen look soft overnight.

A Michigan man sued AMC over its no-outside-food policy and $8 popcorn. The lawsuit failed — but it exposed the strange economics of the movie business.

China's 'Interviews Before Execution' put death-row prisoners on prime-time TV for 40 million viewers. The show, its host Ding Yu, and why it vanished.

Prem Ganapathy reached Mumbai in 1990 with Rs 200 and was robbed on arrival. By 1992 he was selling dosas from a handcart near Vashi station; that cart

On February 2, 2012, the Supreme Court cancelled all 122 2G licenses granted in 2008 as wholly arbitrary and unconstitutional, shaking India's telecom sector.

Forbes called reclusive 5-Hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava the wealthiest Indian in America in 2012 — worth $1.5 billion, though almost nobody knew his name.

India told Britain to keep its aid money: the Finance Ministry announced no further DFID funding beyond a transition period, a marker of a changed self-image.

Jeff Bezos's 2010 Princeton speech, 'We Are What We Choose': the story of his grandmother, the line 'it's harder to be kind than clever,' and why choices,

How the hydrogen bomb works — fission-triggered fusion, the 1961 Tsar Bomba test at 50 megatons, and the paradox of mutually assured destruction.

In 2010, a harassment complaint from contractor Jodie Fisher ended Mark Hurd's run as HP CEO. What the investigation found — and didn't — and why the letter

From Cheney's famous quip to Modern Monetary Theory: the serious economic case for deficit tolerance, the hawkish counter-case, and what Japan teaches us.

Drunk shopping is real: alcohol plus one-click checkout is a recipe for regret. The behavioral economics of wine-fueled impulse buys — and how to stop.

When white leaders succeed, it's competence. When black leaders succeed, it's luck. On the racial attribution bias in sports commentary, business coverage —

From bottled water to extended warranties: twelve everyday purchases where the marketing outruns the value — and what to do instead.

Michael Burry, the one-eyed doctor-turned-hedge-fund manager, read subprime prospectuses nobody else opened — and saw the 2008 crisis coming years early.

On April 13, 2011, the EU fined P&G €211.2M and Unilever €104M for a detergent cartel — Henkel blew the whistle and walked free; Colgate was never in the case.

In December 2011, Facebook made its first-ever hire from IIT-Delhi — 21-year-old Ankur Dahiya, at a Rs 65 lakh package. The story behind the headline offer.

From The India Way to Indra Nooyi: what the 2010 debate about Indian leadership got right — and how the decade that followed confirmed it.

An original essay on the end of the age of abundance: from the 1959 Nixon-Khrushchev kitchen debate to the reckoning of living beyond our means.

In autumn 2011 the eurozone's debt crisis had serious economists openly contemplating the unthinkable: the possible dissolution of the euro itself.