Meet the ‘vegan mafia,’ a secret group of investors betting on the future of food

Whenever Ryan Bethencourt meets a promising start-up making an alternative to animal products, he knows who to call. The “vegan mafia” is a group of powerful vegans across the country who fund start-ups, and try to wean people from their dependence on...

The crisis over a diversity memo is forcing Google to uphold its values while fostering debate

As a crisis unfurled at Google over an employee memo that argued biological factors helped explain the shortage of female engineers and leaders in Silicon Valley, some of the most pointed critiques of the company’s handing of the issue were posted to its own...