January
Nike races to keep up with more nimble rivals
The athletic footwear maker’s competition goes beyond traditional rivals like Adidas as newer, more nimble shoe companies take market share.
- Sara Germano
December 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The bigot’s guide to antisemitism
Anti-Jewish activists hide their prejudice behind euphemisms, criticism of Israel and the Palestinian cause, writes a Jewish journalist.
- Yair Rosenberg
November 2023
Classic guitar tones made this Young Rich Lister a 150-times return
An Australian start-up that allows record producers to license their signature sounds has taken off for Unified Music founder Jaddan Comerford.
- Michael Bailey
August 2023
The uncancelling of Yeezy sneakers
Adidas cut ties with Kanye West following a racist rant, but outrage at his comments hasn’t translated into a boycott of his shoes.
- Rachel Tashjian
June 2023
AI helps complete ‘last’ Beatles song with John Lennon’s voice
More than 50 years after the Beatles broke up, Paul McCartney said artificial intelligence helped create one last song that will be released later this year.
- Derrick Bryson Taylor
Adidas bet big on a volatile artist, and lost
The German shoemaker’s alliance with rapper Kanye West was a spectacular and fascinating failure of corporate strategy.
- Kim Bhasin and Tim Loh
May 2023
What it’s like to buy a $300m home
Wealthy home buyers want gyms, pools, movie theatres and swaths of land, but mostly they just always want more.
- Herb Scribner
April 2023
Michael Jordan sneakers sold for record $3.3m
With a stroke, the Air Jordan 13s became the most expensive sneakers known to have sold, ever.
- Updated
- James Tarmy
February 2023
- Analysis
- Style
Kanye West may just have cost Adidas billions
The footwear maker might have to throw away more than $1 billion in clothing and shoes because of the rapper’s racist opinions.
- Aaron Patrick
December 2022
Washington honours stars of stage and screen
Actor George Clooney, singer-songwriter Amy Grant, singer Gladys Knight, composer Tania León and rock group U2 were celebrated for their contributions to the arts.
- Jeff Mason and Daphne Psaledakis
November 2022
Key Trump rivals silent after white supremacist meeting
The former president announced his bid for a second term on November 15 and still wields tremendous influence over the party.
- Josh Wingrove
October 2022
Musk plans to slash Twitter’s workforce by 75pc
If Elon Musk ends up at the helm of Twitter, he plans to cut nearly 75 per cent of its 7500 workers, to a skeleton staff of just over 2000.
- Elizabeth Dwoskin, Faiz Siddiqui, Gerrit De Vynck and Jeremy B. Merrill
Twitter reviews policies around permanent user bans
The social media platform could be bringing its content moderation more in line with Elon Musk’s vision for the company.
- Hannah Murphy
August 2022
Why do music critics play so nice these days?
The fanatical fans of megastars are making some artists unassailable.
- Thomas Hobbs
June 2022
Own a pair of Nikes? This is why
After half a century, Nike’s story is one of sports and marketing. But even more, it’s a story about how we construct the myths of ourselves.
- Vanessa Friedman
April 2022
Rodrigo, Batiste, Silk Sonic steal the Grammys as Zelensky beams in
A veteran of the High School Musical series, Rodrigo became the breakout music star of 2021.
- Updated
- Jonathan Landrum
February 2022
‘A little narcissistic’ – Netflix doco traces how Kanye West became Ye
A three-part documentary that captures the rap superstar and businessman in the days before he became a household name was 21 years in the making.
- Jon Caramanica
Virgil Abloh couture sneakers sell for $35 million at auction
Two hundred pairs of Nike Air Force 1 sneakers created by the late fashion designer Virgil Abloh have sold for a combined $35.53 million at a Sotheby’s auction.
- Marina Stanley
October 2021
A pair of Michael Jordan’s Nikes just set an auction record of $1.96m
The basketballer’s earliest known regular season game-worn shoes have been sold by Sotheby’s, breaking the high for sneakers sold under the hammer.
- Sophie Alexander
March 2021
Jack Dorsey’s Square to buy Jay-Z’s music service Tidal
Square has agreed to buy a majority stake in Tidal, the streaming music service led by rapper Jay-Z, as part of an effort to expand the company’s suite of financial tools to musicians and emerging artists.
- Kurt Wagner and Lucas Shaw
