The Billionaire Gadfly Who Stared Down Beijing
New York Times
Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui has been using his Manhattan aerie as a launching pad for Twitter accusations about corruption in China. The charges could upend politics in China, possibly driving a wedge between President Xi Jinping and Wang Qishan, the Wall Street-connected anticorruption czar and focus of Guo's allegations. No one's motives appear pure in this saga, and the stakes couldn't be much higher. First He Became an American, Then He Joined ISIS
The Atlantic
How did a Bosnian-American immigrant wind up fighting for ISIS two decades after participating in, and ultimately escaping, Bosnia's civil war and ethnic cleansing? Abdullah Ramo Pazara's turbulent life, grievances and ideological roots connect his story to those of other radicalized foreign fighters. How Wells Fargo's Cutthroat Culture Bred Fraud
Vanity Fair
Most Americans assume their bank accounts are sacrosanct, but that wasn't true at Wells Fargo. Now angry ex-employees are illuminating the pressure to defraud perhaps more than a million customers: "You were supposed to tell them how you were going to make your sales goal for the day, and if you didn't, you'd have to call in the afternoon to explain why you didn't make it and how you were going to fix it. It was really tense." Why Citizenship Is Now a Commodity
BBC
Citizenship via investment is nothing new. But in the face of tightening immigration policies around the world, opportunities have expanded. For as little as $50,000 (in Latvia) or as much as $10 million (in France), foreigners can buy legal status to live, work and bank in a growing number of countries. Though They Are Few, Female CEOs Earn More Than Male Chiefs
Wall Street Journal
A recent analysis of the S&P 500 contradicts part of the wage gap narrative. Women CEOs are outearning their male counterparts, even as they remain outnumbered. Nearly $15,000 a Year: What Federal Rules Cost a Family
PJ Media/Competitive Enterprise Institute
A new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates that the average American family is paying nearly $15,000 per year in a hidden tax: compliance with federal regulations. Eyewitness Account of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Smithsonian
A manuscript donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture last year has been found to contain a handwritten, first-person account of the 1921 race massacre that destroyed Tulsa's "Black Wall Street." Inside the Plot to Steal Soviet Planetary Data
Astronomy
At the height of the Cold War, American intelligence learned of the Soviet Union's deep-space radio channel to its spacecraft. Newly declassified documents let us finally see how American spies succeeded at listening in after 21 years of trying. Yet all the effort amounted to a nothingburger: Perhaps the biggest surprise is how inconsequential the signal and the data it hid actually were. | 
