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Video: how companies map their supply chains
Tracing every supplier behind a product is harder than it sounds. A visual guide to the process.
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Explainer
How broadcast rights became the most valuable asset in professional sport
Live sport is one of the few things audiences still watch together and in real time. That makes the rights to show it unusually prized, and unusually hard to price.
Energy
The hard engineering behind grid-scale energy storage
Wind and solar power are only as useful as the grid's ability to store and move them. That is where the energy transition's most complicated work now lies.
Analysis
How companies are redrawing their supply chains
Efficiency once trumped everything. Now businesses are paying for resilience — and discovering how hard it is to buy.
Weekend
How translated fiction finds its readers
A novel's journey into another language depends on a small chain of enthusiasts: scouts, translators, editors and booksellers willing to take a chance.
Analysis
Adapting cities to extreme heat
Urban areas trap warmth. Planners are turning to trees, materials and building codes to keep residents safe.
Analysis
The economics of subscribing to everything
From software to cars, companies want recurring revenue. Customers are starting to count the cost.
Investigation
Inside the slow, careful world of fact-checking
Before a story is published, someone has to ask of every sentence: how do we know this? A look at a discipline readers rarely see.
