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Lead story
A college junior redesigned JCPenney’s entire identity and Oscar night got the reveal
Brand identity lives in the emotional resonance it creates, and that instinct has no minimum age or experience requirement.
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Analysis
Longer reads that connect dots others miss — across psychology, technology, and culture.
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Why one mother learned to read soil: Mexico’s citizen search brigades and the emot…
When Mexico's government fails to find its disappeared citizens, mothers like Araceli Salcedo Jiménez learn to read the soil — not out of heroism, bu…
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U-visa rollbacks are creating a public safety crisis: 911 calls plummet as immigrant vic…
The reversal of protections for noncitizen crime victims has created a measurable public safety crisis: U-visa petitions have dropped over 60 percent…
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Jeff Bezos opened a door and Charlie Rose forgot to ask a single hard question
The questions we fail to ask in moments of wonder become the crises we inherit in moments of consequence.
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What happens to the guy who’s been doing the manual job for 20 years when the robo…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Picture a man who has run the same welding station for twenty-two…
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What the most cynical marketing campaigns in history have in common
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. There's a question I've returned to repeatedly while analyzing co…
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One reason younger generations may be less anxious about AI taking jobs than older gener…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. There's a theory circulating in the kinds of boardrooms and HR le…
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The reason Google’s business model is under genuine threat from AI isn’t the…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. For most of its existence, Google didn't sell search. It sold the…
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The reason people overshare in comment sections isn’t a lack of self-awareness — comment…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. There is a specific kind of embarrassment that arrives the mornin…
Local Consequences
Band-Aids on mail trucks and a watchdog who stopped barking
When the watchdog stops barking, the danger hasn't passed; we've simply stopped listening.