Books & the Arts / Karen Hao’s recent book on the company argues that its ambitions are not merely about scale or the market but the creation of a global force that rivals a colonial power of old.

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Studying the earth from 1,000 feet up, a USGS aerial survey is looking for pyrrhotite and other dangers under New England ...