My latest for The New Yorker. Four Saudi princesses were kept drugged and imprisoned for almost two decades after challenging the regime. A Texan doctor who tried to free them speaks out about the life-threatening brutality they faced. newyorker.com/news/a-reporte…

probably the dopest thing anyone can ever say about a DC bureaucrat, and based on my time working with Lina a million years ago, i'd say it's absolutely true about her bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Fantastic read on BYD and why its rise can not just be chalked up to state subsidies, or something like that. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Why Starbucks has gotten in on every neon-colored-caffeinated-energy-boba-Instagrammy-unicorn-themed-pink-hued-cold beverage. It's the kids. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

For Businessweek, I profiled Spindrift founder Bill Creelman and got the flavor breakdown of his six-can-a-day habit. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

paging Max Chafkin

Spindrift's CEO "seems confident this amount of seltzer won’t destroy his, or anyone’s, teeth. 'What does your dentist say?' I ask. 'Not much,' he says. 'I think they’re happy.' bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The Chinese car brand pretty much everyone in the world is going to know very soon. And the one the US is working very hard to keep out. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

I went on Marketplace yesterday to talk about my recent piece on the resale clothing business online. If there's huge supply and huge demand, why is no one making money? marketplace.org/2024/10/17/sec…

One for the weekend: My latest for Businessweek, the story behind OpenAI's lawsuit against a guy named Guy. Guy Ravine says he's the one who came up with the whole open-AI-nonprofit-for-the-benefit-of-humanity thing first. Get it before the gift link expires: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Tim Cook’s other job: helping Nike turn things around. Story with Kim Bhasin and Lily Meier bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

they say if you want to really get to know a person, you should talk to a few of their closest friends – so I talked to about 40 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha about their soror, Kamala Harris, and her campaign for the presidency for The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Today we're launching a new limited series podcast on the unlikely alliance between two billionaire political figures: Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Hosted by the inimitable Max Chafkin. First episode goes live TODAY for Bloomberg.com subscribers only (and is more widely

A new podcast on Musk, tech and politics featuring THE Max Chafkin

NEW: We analyzed more than 53,000 posts over more than a decade sent by Elon Musk on X, and found that immigration and voter fraud has become — by far — his favorite and most popular policy topic online. bloom.bg/3UiUOJy

This is a MUST READ ahead of Election Day. Grateful to work with these brilliant journalists.

Very good read. Also confirms what we've all noticed about Musk: He's tweeting non-stop. In 2022, he posted about a dozen times a day. This year, he's posting around 60 times a day; he has also posted as many as 40 times within an hour.

"Musk’s online rhetoric on immigration, analyzed here in statistical depth, does more than boost Trump’s policy plans to deport immigrants. It also plays directly into Trump’s claims that elections are rigged for Democrats." via Davey Alba bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Outstanding piece by Matteo Wong about the siege election workers are under all around the country. Already under resourced, they now have to deal with unbelievable threats and harassment, simply for doing the job of administering our democracy. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Some Democrats are concerned that Kamala Harris is talking too much about Trump threatening democracy and not enough isn’t focused enough on the economy. Her response here in Houston: “One of the things I love about the American people is we can hold many thoughts at once.”