Long-form profiles have reshaped public understanding of leaders, artists and institutions. The craft behind them is less mysterious than it looks.
The word gets used for everything from treaty tables to tact at a dinner party. Only one of those meanings pays the bills of state.
The communiqué is written before the leaders land. What actually gets decided happens months earlier, in rooms with no cameras.
The economics of trading communities run on trust, lineage and things a price tag alone can't settle.