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Rocky Road and Licorice

Rivian Corporation began as a scrappy startup in 2009. Volkswagen has spent decades failing to understand American car buyers. Now they’re betting $5.86 billion that Rocky Road and Licorice actually do mix. The electric vehicle maker, started as an enthusiast-run firm by an entrepreneur, R.J. Scaringe, with money from family

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I Love Cars

I am a car guy and, as I do most years, I strolled through the North American International Auto Show which is held in Detroit

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Better With Age

Are you getting better with age? The question came up for me watching Tom Brady’s virtuoso performance in the Super Bowl. He threw for over

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Stealing Signs

Chris Correa, an employee of the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team, hacked into the computer system of the Houston Astros. Over a period

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Can’t Think of Anything

I’ve started this piece several times over the last two weeks, and each time I got deflected and went on to something else like eating,

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My Syrian Driver

Last weekend I took a Uber downtown. After a few minutes of chit chat, my driver told me he was an immigrant from Syria who

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