How Streaming Became Cable TV’s Unlikely Life Raft

Charter Communications and other providers are slowing the cord-cutting exodus by bundling the very apps that once threatened ...
University of California

How the US became a science superpower

America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more research, been cited more often by other scientists, earned more patents, and ...
Vulture

How Broadway Became Broadway

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. A stagestruck adolescent growing up in Washington, D.C., I had the same ...
The Economist

How IBM became an AI darling

Throughout its 115-year life IBM has shown itself to be a master of reinvention. In the mid-1990s the mainframe pioneer rescued itself from collapse by shifting its focus to the booming business of IT ...
Hyperallergic

How Detroit Became a Hub for Black Art

Editor's Note: This article was produced in collaboration with Essay'd, a platform for art writing, curating, and research in Detroit, and funded through a feature writing grant from Michigan ...
The Economist

How China became cool

The leaders of the Communist Party might be surprised to find they are indebted to a bouncy 20-year-old livestreamer from Ohio called Darren Watkins junior. He goes by the screen name “IShowSpeed” and ...