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Vauhini Vara

Wall Street Journal

Fort Collins, CO, United States

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Past:
  • Wall Street Journal
  • The New Republic
  • The New Yorker
  • WIRED

Past articles by Vauhini:

Seattle’s Wild Side: An Island Untouched by the Tech Boom

On a visit to Blake Island, Vauhini Vara, author of “The Immortal King Rao,” finds a little-known patch of Pacific Northwest gorgeousness. → Read More

What Kind of Democrat Can Win Over Suburban America?

Opposition to the president in Orange County has boosted hopes of a wave election this fall. But the party needs more than anti-Trump anger to win. → Read More

Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara, the former business editor of newyorker.com, is a contributing writer for the site. From 2004 to 2013, she was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, covering California politics and Silicon Valley; her writing has been anthologized in “Dogfight at the Pentagon,” a 2014 collection of page-one features from the Journal. She is also an O. Henry Prize-winning fiction writer, with… → Read More

Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara, the former business editor of newyorker.com, is a contributing writer for the site. From 2004 to 2013, she was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, covering California politics and Silicon Valley; her writing has been anthologized in “Dogfight at the Pentagon,” a 2014 collection of page-one features from the Journal. She is also an O. Henry Prize-winning fiction writer, with… → Read More

Can the American Heartland Remake Itself in the Image of Silicon Valley? One Startup Finds Out

One Denver startup learns what it's like to gain traction outside the Bay Area tech scene. → Read More

Can the American Heartland Remake Itself in the Image of Silicon Valley? One Startup Finds Out

One Denver startup learns what it's like to gain traction outside the Bay Area tech scene. → Read More

A Town Hall with Constituents but No Senator

Faced with increasingly angry constituents, many Republican congresspeople have been avoiding town-hall meetings—but the constituents of Senator Cory Gardner found a sort of solution. → Read More

Town Hall News, Opinion, and Analysis

Faced with increasingly angry constituents, many Republican congresspeople have been avoiding town-hall meetings—but the constituents of Senator Cory Gardner found a sort of solution. → Read More

The Tech Resistance to the Trump Refugee Ban

Vauhini Vara on the reaction of Silicon Valley executives and other C.E.O.s to Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and on immigrants from seven Muslim countries. → Read More

The Ten Best Business Quotes of 2016

The year’s most memorable lines, from some who wield corporate power and others who have observed it. → Read More

Howard Schultz Says Goodbye to His Starbucks Empire

The departing C.E.O.’s narrative about his company is one of excellence and focus, but it’s really one of unrelenting expansion. → Read More

What Snapchat Might Learn from Facebook

Vauhini Vara on the pressures that Snapchat is likely to face from investors and users as the social-media platform embarks on an initial public offering. → Read More

How Airbnb Makes It Hard to Sue for Discrimination

An arbitration clause in Airbnb’s user agreement may keep a claim of racial bias out of the courts. → Read More

The Wealth Gap in Philanthropy

The rise of a new, fast-growing class of charities known as donor-advised funds represents a momentous shakeup in charitable giving in the U.S. → Read More

A.T. & T. Wants Time Warner for Eyes, Ears, and Ads

Since people use A.T. & T. to access “content,” the acquisition might help it do better by creating some of that material itself. → Read More

Mergers and Acquisitions Archives

Find the collection of news on Mergers and Acquisitions, in-depth articles, opinion and analysis from The New Yorker. → Read More

Google’s Software Sell for Hardware

Google’s history with hardware is not great, so it has to convince users that the software within makes it valuable. → Read More

A Hack to Yahoo’s Shrunken Reputation

Until now, the company has held onto one valuable asset: its number of users. After a huge data breach, even that could be in peril. → Read More

Apple’s Big Problem: Will India Buy iPhones?

Apple’s latest launch was underwhelming. Does the company’s device-sales salvation lie in the Indian and Chinese markets? → Read More

Walmart’s Three-Billion-Dollar Hire

Marc Lore promised to run Jet.com as a worker-friendly place. So how will the company fare now that it’s being bought by Walmart? → Read More