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Money gets a bad rap in some quarters. It’s said that it “isn’t everything,” that it cannot “buy you happiness,” that loving it is “the root of all evil.” But if there’s one thing that money is absolutely stupendous at doing, it’s solving problems. Naturally, the more money you have, the more problems you can solve. Which is why the fact that we’ve allowed a large portion of an otherwise finite amount of wealth to become concentrated in the hands of an increasing number of billionaire plutocrats

A new study describes in grotesque detail the extent to which the ultrarich have perverted the charitable giving industry.

More than 60 years ago, a Milwaukee building owner asked the city to buy her property. The new freeway, she argued, had isolated the bar from its neighborhood and its customers and diminished the business. She was not wrong. Yet, since then, two businesses each endured at least a quarter-century.

There are tons of new podcasts popping up right now. Here's what not to miss.

A real-life dolphin saga has it all; Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac sizzle in the returning time-travel drama; and happy 15th birthday to a commercial radio gem