- Lydia DePillis
- Reporter
Lydia DePillis is a reporter focusing on business policy, including lobbying, government contracting, and international trade, with a bit of urban affairs and infrastructure on the side. She was previously a staff writer at The New Republic and the Washington City Paper. Email her here and follow her on Twitter here.
Putting a Walmart promo in context
The retail industry wants you to think that everybody can work their way up. Reality is a little less ideal.
How brick-and-mortar retailers can fight Amazon.com’s predictive shipping
Turns out traditional store operators have some utility when it comes to knowing what customers want.
Corporate welfare costs more than pension obligations
A new report finds that states often spend more on tax breaks and subsidies for businesses than funding their bloated pension plans.
Why Obama’s MyRA program makes sense
It might be small, but it’s a way of getting people in the habit.
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- Cities don’t need Congress to move forward: A conversation with the mayor of Baltimore
- Just how much money will Warren Buffett make on the $1 billion bracket?
- This is how Wal-Mart is bringing jobs back to the U.S.
- Miami Beach mayor: Take your tech start-up gospel, and shove it
- Why you’ll be able to pay for things on your phone in lots of ways for a long time
- How toilet paper explains the world
- How ‘American Idol’ explains the text message’s rise and fall
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Capital Citizen with Clinton Yates
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Talk about life and culture in the District with Post local columnist Clinton Yates.
