The best business writing 2013

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part I. On the ground. The sharp, sudden decline of America's middle class / Jeff Tietz, Rolling Stone

The great American foreclosure story : the struggle for justice and a place to call home / Paul Kiel, ProPublica

Part II. Bad medicine. Bad to the bone : a medical horror story / Mina Kimes, Fortune

Prescription for addiction / Thomas Catan, Devlin Barrett, and Timothy W. Martin, Wall Street Journal

Anemia drugs made billions, but at what cost? / Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post

Part III. Big business. Making the world's largest airline fly / Drake Bennett, Businessweek

Gusher / Steve Coll, The New Yorker

Part IV. Bad business. Vast Mexico bribery case hushed up by Wal-Mart after top-level struggle / David Barstow, New York Times

Chesapeake and rival plotted to suppress land prices / Brian Grow, Joshua Schneyer, and Janet Roberts, Reuters

Fear fans flames for chemical makers / Patricia Callahan and Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune

Part V. Media and marketing. His. Hers. / Jessica Pressler, New York

Top five ways Bleacher Report rules the world! / Joe Eskenazi, San Francisco Weekly

Why India's newspaper industry is thriving / Ken Auletta, The New Yorker

The frequent fliers who flew too much / Ken Bensinger, Los Angeles Times

Part VI. Big think. Trade-offs between inequality, productivity, and employment / Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity

The naked and the TED / Evgeny Morozov, The New Republic

Part VII. Adventures in finance. Wall Street bonus withdrawal means trading Aspen for coupons / Max Abelson, Bloomberg

The tale of a whale of a fail / Matt Levine, Dealbreaker

Case against Bear and JPMorgan provides little cheer / Bethany McLean, Reuters

How ECB chief outflanked German foe in fight for Euro / Brian Blackstone and Marcus Walker, Wall Street Journal

from The trouble is the banks / edited by Mark Greif, Dayna Tortorici, Kathleen French, Emma Janaskie, and Nick Werle, n + 1

Please don't harass my father any further / Deena DeNaro

My furnace guy / Joel Roache

Thank you for my lessons / Anonymous

How we're doing out here / Anonymous

I didn't buy a house / Pamila Payne

Why I am leaving Goldman Sachs / Greg Smith, New York Times

Death takes a policy : how a lawyer exploited the fine print and found himself facing federal charges / Jake Bernstein, ProPublica

Part VIII. Brave new world. How companies learn your secrets / Charles Duhigg, New York Times Magazine

Glass works : how Corning created the ultrathin, ultrastrong material of the future / Bryan Gardiner, Wired

Skilled work, without the worker / John Markoff, New York Times

I was a warehouse wage slave / Mac McClelland, Mother Jones

In China, human costs are built into an iPad / Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, New York Times

How Apple and Amazon security flaws led to my EPIC hacking / Mat Honan, Wired

Permissions

List of contributors.