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Kushner and Loeffler: mirror images, elongated, slim-suited, self-seeking dilettantes who entered politics at the highest level because of wealth they never had to earn. Kushner gained admission to Harvard and New York University through his father’s multimillion-dollar donations, married into another fortune, became a slumlord, failed in both news
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Since Pennsylvania doesn’t require monitoring private wells, there was no record of what was in Buzz’s well—though it sat on a floodplain next
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Nestlé’s hard-nosed lobbying of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—which regulates bottled water as a food product—to allow water drawn from a borehole to be labeled spring. It isn’t honest, Mascha thinks, and it devalues water that actually is collected from springs.
Elizabeth Royte • Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water
No reputable sources seemed to have spotted this story, of what can be put on the cotton—and, for that matter, polyester, nylon, wool, and viscose—many steps after it has been harvested and woven.
Alden Wicker • To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
India’s growth rate was not what it seemed, and the government’s numbers were found to be a “fantastically crafted fiction” that was inflated by half.)
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
