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Some Goldman analysts are fed up with 98-hour workweeks from their bedroom as a year of WFH forces Wall Street to reevaluate junior bankers' workload

Period apps are a privacy nightmare – should you still use them? An expert explains the risks

We traced the history and significance of 'Got 'Em.' Here's how the idiom became arguably the most divisive phrase in sneaker culture.

From losing 75% of the profits to becoming a millionaire, startup employees discuss selling shares on 'secondary' markets.

Here's how Donald Trump could theoretically run for president in 2024 from prison and govern the US behind bars, according to 9 legal scholars

Big investors are pressing companies to tell them where their factories are. Here's why biodiversity is the next frontier for fund managers.

'Tea' and drama YouTubers go after some of the internet's biggest celebrities. It's not as easy as it used to be.

Feel like the climate crisis is hopeless? That's because the powerful are trying to bury the solutions.

5 charts that show how truly awful Cristiano Ronaldo has been in the Champions League this year

The prison-industrial complex is nickel-and-diming people who make pennies an hour. Now it's monetizing one of their last connections to the outside world.

'Judge Judy' was plagued by sexual harassment claims, drinking on the job, and racism, former employees say. They worry the new $25 million Amazon streaming show will be more of the same.

It's time to give white-collar perks to traditionally blue-collar jobs

For every COVID-19 death 'partisanship' should be listed as a 'contributing cause,' expert says, but politicians on both sides of the aisle are still pointing fingers

The demise of 'thoughts and prayers': How the clichéd greeting-card condolence died amid a rash of mass shootings

It's time to end corporate welfare. Boeing is exhibit A for why.

If China's economy keeps stumbling, it won't just take down Beijing — the whole world will collapse with it

4,000 Americans were sent home from prison during COVID. They repaired their lives, but now could be forced back to prison because of a ridiculous technicality.

Hunter Biden isn't Trump, but what he's up to is bad and deserves your attention — even if you hate Fox News

'Privileged white wellness': Lululemon corporate employees speak out on the culture of racial insensitivity

Investors snatched up $77 billion worth of homes — a record — making it even harder for regular buyers to buy one

There's a 'revolving door' at Amazon, where company insiders are ditching the retail behemoth to expose its inner workings and make a fortune

The mysterious family behind In-N-Out has donated more than $15,000 to Trump and the GOP since 2016

Inmates in New York prisons say officers are punishing them for seeking medical care and coronavirus protection

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Nike's plan to make hyped drops more fair ignores what some customers say is a much bigger problem: stolen shoes

Instagram's new TV service recommended videos of potential child abuse

Employers hold the key to ending the pandemic — but they’re afraid to use it

Despite a record turnout, Native American voters faced challenges new and old to casting a ballot in the 2020 election

Legal experts told us their nightmare scenarios about what happens to US democracy if Trump wins the presidency again in 2024

10 years after Steve Jobs' death, his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, has multiplied her fortune and power by acting nothing like him (most of the time)

We talked to 42 insiders about Tesla's factory of the future. They revealed the corners cut to hit ambitious production targets.

VCs are piling into cannabis tech

Worker unrest and internal tensions are forcing a dramatic reckoning at McDonald's that could forever change the fast-food icon

The definitive story of how a controversial Florida businessman blew up MoviePass and burned hundreds of millions

How to sell the vaccine to the unvaccinated, according to 6 advertising executives who are pros at persuasion

An influential Saudi banker moved to the US to pitch his country and crown prince to DC. Here's how his mission suddenly derailed.

3 reasons to be optimistic about this summer, according to 18 doctors and scientists.

Some Lululemon retail employees say there is an environment of 'toxic positivity,' where workers feel pressure to share personal information with managers and constant feedback can feel like bullying

'Diversity' and 'inclusion' are the emptiest words in corporate America. Here's what we really need to dismantle systemic racism in the office.

The US economy is barreling toward a boom — and it's going to be bigger, faster, and weirder than you expect

HR was built on bias. Now it's facing an evolution.

Employers are being forced to make salaries public — and that's good news for your paycheck.

Some rich people are gaming the system to get COVID-19 vaccines using hefty donations and cozy relationships with CEOs.

Some Americans were primed for vaccine skepticism after decades of mistrust in Big Pharma

Holiday hiring wars: Amazon, Walmart, UPS, and FedEx face off in a race to staff more than 335,000 workers in a brutally tight labor market

Sean Spicer's new book praises Trump as a 'unicorn riding a unicorn across a rainbow'

Disney World employees describe the cost of staying safe as coronavirus cases surge in Florida

The way we shop and pay is transforming — here's a look at the hottest trends and the players poised to take off

Millions of students are buying 'plagiarism-free' essays for as little as $13 — and it's nearly impossible for teachers to prove

HR professionals are being recruited relentlessly and have their pick of top jobs

Facebook and Instagram have been crashing far more over the last year, and here’s the data to prove it

Wall Street banks are raising pay to record levels yet again. Here's a bank-by-bank rundown of new investment banker salaries, from analysts to MDs.

Workers are 'rage quitting' their jobs as a tightening labor market forces employers to take note of unfavorable conditions and low pay

The do-good investing boom is under scrutiny by regulators, investors, and GOP politicians

Top economists and 2 former 2020 presidential candidates are backing a 'vaccine stimulus' that would pay people at least $1,000 to get COVID-19 shots

A decade ago, Big Oil bet on algae as the fuel of the future. Now Exxon is the only major firm still backing the biofuel, which several top algae scientists say is destined to flop.

The US has one of the highest rates of depression in the world. The solution? Give people money.

WEALTH MANAGEMENT 2030: Read the full responses to our survey about wealth management and the financial adviser of the future

When you take your laptop to Apple's Genius Bar, it likely ends up getting repaired at a 'sweatshop' in Texas

Election Day is here. These are 11 things to know about the billions of dollars spent to buy your vote.

The best way to keep people safe, healthy, and happy is through massive government spending, and the pandemic proved it

Teens are writing graphic 'sex slave' fan fiction stories about their favorite TikTokers

How the management consulting industry fails women — especially working mothers

Gaia was a wildly popular yoga brand. Now it's a publicly traded Netflix rival pushing conspiracy theories while employees fear the CEO is invading their dreams.

McDonald's offers franchisees an olive branch, hoping to 'reset' after a years-long civil war

The SEC just paid out nearly $279 million to a tipster in its largest-ever award. Here's an inside look at the crazy world of whistleblower lawsuits.

From 'vanilla' skirt suits to 'too-tight' shirts: Female lawyers describe how it's impossible to win when it comes to professional dress codes

A woman spent years tricking thousands of adoptive parents into thinking she had a baby for them. I was one of her victims.

Anxious South Korean youngsters have lost hope in their futures and don't want to get married — and that's unexpectedly fueling the country's $2.5 billion air-fragrance industry

Social media was once a neutral battleground. Now, both Republicans and Democrats have demonized them to drive political agendas.

Tesla is transforming how cars are sold. But 27 insiders say the company's methods mean slashed pay and living in constant fear of getting laid off.

Some VC firms are looking to raise bonuses next year as the hiring market remains red-hot, a new survey shows

Dealmaker dinners are back, and interns are ready to hit up the bars. Wall Street's appetite is returning, and New York City restaurants are gearing up for a rush.

A new podcast is exploring the reckoning that happened at Bon Appétit. Here's how the publication ended up in hot water.

Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing

How the GOP learned to love QAnon

Internet mobs of pop-music fans have sent waves of harassment at critics. Sometimes they're fueled by the artists themselves.

'That's not ByteStyles!': How TikTok employees are rewarded and reprimanded based on parent company ByteDance's 6 culture principles.

24 outlandish conspiracy theories Donald Trump has floated over the years

A complete breakdown of the Oscars diversity problem over the past decade

Leaked audio reveals StockX is facing a crisis in its authentication centers, with workers testing positive for COVID-19 and complaints of unsafe working conditions as product piles up

Boba liberalism: How the emergence of superficial activism could cause more harm than good to the AAPI community

TikTok is racing to finalize a deal that could give Oracle and US investors a majority stake in the app. Here's what we know about the bid that could save TikTok from a US ban.

Inside the secretive Israeli spyware startup scene, where the notorious NSO Group has spawned a web of companies that hack into devices

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Invasion of the remote workers! How 'digital nomads' are ruining tropical paradises • ART BY Glenn Harvey
MY OWN PRIVATE PORTLANDIA • ART BY Dakarai Akil

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“From Here” : Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and establishing where we stand going forward.
Inside London's derelict 'Billionaires Row' — a mile-long street of mystery, murder, and tax avoidance
The State of Gen Z: the smartphone generation is reaching a breaking point
Class of 2020: a look at gen z as it graduates into chaos
How AI is changing everything

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Here's how coronavirus lab tests really work, and why they don't always give satisfying results

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