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Ludovic Marin / AFP / Getty The Trump Administration Is Driving Away Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Foreign-born founders start a huge number of the U.S.’s most lucrative businesses. But new government policies are making it harder for them to stay.
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Andrea Morales The Unequal Geography of the Gig Economy
Solving rural poverty in Arkansas will take more than odd jobs from smartphone apps.
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Patrick Semansky / AP / Katie Martin / ... DeRay McKesson Talks About the Hardest Job He's Ever Had
How the activist made a career of social justice.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters / The Atlantic The Death of a Gig Worker
An SUV killed Pablo Avendano as he picked up jobs for the food-delivering app Caviar. Who is responsible?
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The New York Stock Exchange Has Its First Woman President. Is She on a Glass Cliff?
It may not be a coincidence that the exchange’s first female boss will begin her tenure during a particularly daunting period for the organization.
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Alison Yin The Future of AI Depends on High-School Girls
Women make up one-quarter of computer scientists. But in the field of artificial intelligence those numbers are likely much lower.
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Pete Ryan Should Businesses Help Employees Pay Off Their Student Loans?
There’s no tax advantage, and it’s not easy, but some employers are offering loan-repayment as a benefit.
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Ron Harris / AP / Katie Martin / ... Life Before Coffee
Lemuel Butler, one of the world’s most celebrated baristas, had a string of odd jobs and dropped out of college before devoting himself to his craft.
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Emmanuel Wong / Getty How China's Tech Revolution Threatens Silicon Valley
A look inside Beijing's booming start-up scene shows how ubiquitous the country's tech culture is.
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Tyler Comrie An SAT for CEOs
To get their next job—or keep their current one—some executives might need to take, and ace, a timed exam.
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Evan Semón The Gutting of The Denver Post Is a Death Knell for Local News
After protesting the metro daily’s owners this week, one of the paper’s last remaining reporters contemplates what went wrong.
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Dola Sun The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine
Are electronic medical records and demanding regulations contributing to a historic doctor shortage?
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Andrew Holbrooke / Corbis via Getty Images The Selective Westernization of NYU's Abu Dhabi Campus
A new report criticizing labor practices at NYU's United Arab Emirates campus suggests that though the facility bears the same name, it isn't held to the same labor standards.
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Lee Zahir / Katie Martin / The Atlantic 'I Was Aspiring to Be Like My Grandmothers'
How Paulette Jordan’s roots influenced her campaign to become the first Native American governor in the United States
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Beowulf Sheehan / Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Experiment in Irresponsibility
How the writer Leslie Jamison navigated service jobs, elite institutions, and alcoholism
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VTT Studio / Shutterstock / Adam Schreck / ... The Limits of Rags-to-Riches Stardom
When Collin Ishaq, a migrant worker in Dubai, started winning singing competitions, he seemed to be on his way to fame and fortune. Then reality set in.
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Slack How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity
Slack has been outperforming other Silicon Valley companies when it comes to minority employees, according to the organization’s latest diversity report.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty / Katie Martin / ... 'I Don't Know How Professors Teach Without Fighter-Pilot Experience'
Missy Cummings discusses her first job, her experience as one of the first female fighter pilots, and her time as a Duke professor.
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Oscar Bolton Green A Silicon Valley Pot Deal
Cannabis entrepreneurs gather to pitch venture capitalists, "Shark Tank"-style, for a $10,000 prize.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP / Katie ... 'I Expected to Have a Day Job for the Rest of My Life'
How Philip Glass went from driving taxis to becoming one of the most celebrated composers of our time
