Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 


Corona-free! Well, no, not really, that’s not possible. But I promise, the coronavirus content is somewhat indirect. The pandemic has brought a lot of attention to the sometimes sorry state of what I’ve just learned is called “aging in place,” aka, life in an elder care facility. 

It’s also caused our social media usage to skyrocket. (Hello, Twitter!)

I have a hard time seeing how that is anything but bad given the last election. 

Whether it has caused our use of other, ummm, substances to increase or not, that has not necessarily been good for business. Read here about the decline and fall of the one-time “Apple of pot,” now nicknamed the “WeWork of weed.”