Special Report: The war on big food

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in the June 1, 2015 issue of Fortune. Try this simple test. Say the following out loud: Artificial colors and flavors. Pesticides. Preservatives. High-fructose…

Disney CEO Bob Iger’s empire of tech

Even in a dress-down gray sweater, Bob Iger looks a bit mechanical. His mouth is almost geometrically straight, his face constructed of some cool alloy. His hair, of course, is…

Fortune magazine: Battered but unbroken (October 2001)

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Oct. 1, 2001 issue of Fortune. They started hauling the bodies out about 36 hours after the attack. A day and…

Ralph Lauren: The emperor has clothes

Editor’s note: This article appeared in the Nov. 11, 1996 issue of Fortune. On a brilliantly sunny summer afternoon, the kind of day people dream about to get them through…

The Folks Who Brought You Apple (Fortune, 1981)

If you’ve been conscious lately and haven’t heard of Apple Computer, you’d better have your ears examined. But don’t worry if that name zooming up from the Apple tombstone doesn’t…

Hard times come to the hedge funds

This story originally appeared in the January 1970 issue of Fortune. It is the full text of an article excerpted in Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything,…

Photos: Trailer Park Living in Techtopia, U.S.A.

When Umbelina Martinez’s family first came to the United States decades ago, from ­Michoacan, Mexico, they settled in a three-bedroom house in Redwood City, Calif. It wasn’t all theirs; 25…