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Art by Shane Burke

How U.S. Tech Companies Fueled China’s Surveillance State

By Liza Lin and Josh Chin · Sep 8, 2022 9:00am PDT · 2 comments

As the U.S. government intensifies its efforts to decouple American technology from China’s sprawling surveillance state, a new report by the U.N.’s human rights agency demonstrates the urgency of that task. The U.N. found that China’s treatment of Turkic Muslims in the remote region of Xinjiang “may constitute... As the U.S. government intensifies its efforts to decouple American technology from China’s...

Art by Clark Miller

How I Learned to Code

By Emi Nietfeld · Aug 11, 2022 9:00am PDT

On my first day of class at Harvard, at the end of a lackluster economics lecture, I was shoving my stuff into my backpack when electronic music started blasting through the speakers. The beat seemed to shake the chandelier. A sans serif logo appeared projected at the head of the room: CS50, Introduction to Computer Science. I had nowhere to be,... On my first day of class at Harvard, at the end of a lackluster economics lecture, I was shoving...

Art by Haejin Park

How Tiger Global Found Its Winning Strategy

By Sebastian Mallaby · Feb 1, 2022 9:00am PST

The invention of the growth-equity business began with a phone call. A young analyst named Scott Shleifer had recently joined Tiger Global, a small New York hedge fund. In the summer of 2002, a friend got in touch. “My work is going very poorly,” Shleifer told him. His mission was to scope out hedge-fund investments in semiconductors... The invention of the growth-equity business began with a phone call. A young analyst named Scott...