Author Archive
Workforce
The Remote-Work Revolution Will Be Bigger Than We Think
The past year has offered a glimpse of the nowhere-everywhere future of work.
Management
Three Theories for Why You Have No Time
Better technology means higher expectations, and higher expectations create more work.
Management
Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising identity, transcendence, and community, but failing to deliver.
Oversight
How the Trump Administration's Suit to Block a Media Merger Could Hurt the Tech Industry
The lawsuit may pit AT&T and Time Warner against the Justice Department. But it's Silicon Valley that might suffer the most.
Oversight
Is Donald Trump Using the Justice Department to Crush CNN?
Or is the Department of Justice finally cracking down on corporate mergers?
Management
Older Americans Are More Millennial Than Millennials
To understand both changes to the workforce and changing attitudes toward work, don’t watch young people. Watch their parents (and uncles, aunts, and grandparents).
Management
Trump's 3 a.m. Phone Call
The president pondered a reasonable economics question—but who he reportedly dialed for answers raises questions of its own.
Oversight
Why Democrats and Republicans Speak Different Languages
The Republican National Convention proved yet again that the GOP talks about America and U.S. policy with an entire unique vocabulary. It hasn’t always been this way.
Management
Report: Federal Government is Effectively Fighting Inequality
Inequality is growing. But so are government efforts to combat it—and they’re working.
Management
How to Hire the Perfect Worker
Finding great new employees is hard. A little bit of empiricism can help.
Management
The Easy 10-Second Tax Return
Letting the government do its citizens’ taxes is cheap, efficient, and accurate. Naturally, the United States won’t do it.
Oversight
How Donald Trump Can Beat Hillary Clinton
He spent years as a moderate. He spent years as a nationalist. Why can’t he spend six months being a moderate nationalist?
Management
'From Atoms to Bits': A Brilliant Visual History of American Ideas
A new paper employs a simple technique—counting words in patent texts—to trace the history of American invention, from chemistry to computers.
Management
The Typical Millennial Is $2,000 Poorer Than His Parents at This Age
More young people are living in poverty and fewer have jobs compared their parents' generation, the Baby Boomers, in 1980.
Management
The Incredible Shrinking Incomes of Young Americans
You can't explain millennial economic behavior without explaining that wages have collapsed.
Management
The Gender-Wage Gap Is Shrinking—or Is It?
Why Millennial women will make more than their mothers, but less than their brothers.
Management
Quit Your Job
The surprising benefits of taking your 20s to use the labor market as a laboratory, rather than commit to the first company that happens to hire you
Management
Presidential Speeches Were Once College-Level Rhetoric—Now They're for Sixth-Graders
Are the presidents dumbing down? Or are their speechwriters smartening up?
