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Tipping the Work-Life Balance in Your Favor

A paycheck shouldn’t be the only reward for hard work

First Look at ‘FUTURES'

IF THERE WAS EVER A TIME TO reimagine what lies ahead, it’s today as we envision our post-pandemic world.

How Was Your Visit Today?

High marks on online ratings can benefit urgent care and E.R. doctors, but don't let their concern about those scores influence the care you receive. Here's how

What Have We Learned?

We will never forget 9/11. But a more interesting question at the 20th anniversary is, what should we remember—or more...

Fighting Terrorism from Afar

Can Joe Biden’s ‘over-the-horizon’ strategy in Afghanistan keep America safe? Defense experts are skeptical

Lost in the Shouting

In the school board battles across the country over race, the voices of Black parents talking about what their kids actually experience are often drowned out

Biden's Benghazi Moment

How the deadly Kabul AIRPORT ATTACK and bungled Afghanistan pullout could HAUNT HIS PRESIDENCY–and cost him the midterms.

Are Vaccine Mandates Justifiable?

Some call them reasonable public health measures, while others say they are an un-American invasion of privacy

How to Be a Work Rebel

Got a contrarian streak in you? Harvard’s Francesca Gino shares the right way to be an unconventional leader

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Back to Work in a COVID World

These three strategies will make returning to work easier for you and your employees

Can Anyone Make China Play By The Rules?

The global economy depends on Tokyo and Washington coordinating their defense against cyber and trade threats, says Prime Minister Suga

Do You Have What It Takes to Run Your Own Business?

Here's how to figure out if you've got the right stuff to succeed

The Kids Are Alright

SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND A SURPRISINGLY SIMPLE CURE FOR THE POST-PANDEMIC BLUES — FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS

Can Gun Rights and Public Safety Coexist?

One gun owner says Americans are entitled to own AR-15s. Another says sensible gun controls reduce violence without violating rights

America Faces An Epidemic Of Senseless Gun Violence

I am a gun owner. I’ve been the lead advocate for gun violence prevention here in Massachusetts. In 1994, I realized that 19 kids under 20 years old were dying every day, and 106 Americans dying every day, from firearms. So I built a 250-foot billboard of the Massachusetts Turnpike near Fenway Park and put up messages around gun safety.

Cecily Strong – Crying and Laughing

Comedy and sorrow play equal roles in SNL’s Cecily Strong’s memoir This Will All Be Over Soon

Patrick Starrr

WHEN IT COMES TO SOCIAL MEDIA, BEAUTY IS A MAINSTAY, AND WITHIN that space there’s one person who dominates: Patrick Starrr. “Social media has allowed consumers to find people that look like them to trust a point of view that you may not get from a store employee,” he says. That connection with his YouTube audience inspired Starrr to launch One/Size Beauty.

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“In seconds, North America had suffered the worst blackout in its history. In about nine seconds, 61,800 megawatts were lost, and as many as 50 million people were abruptly left without power,” Newsweek reported.

RISKY BUSINESS

COVID-19 may have made a future pandemic more likely. Is Biden making the right moves to protect us? What experts say about lab leaks, bioterror—and politics

Death of A Salesman

Ron Popeil, who died late in July, hawked the Veg-O-Matic, the Smokeless Ashtray and the Pocket Fisherman, making the world safe for a new generation of TV pitchmen. Attention must be paid

‘BATTLING A PANDEMIC IS A SPECIAL KIND OF WAR'

To create the leadership we need to fight biological threats, look to the military’s example

Troops Fight On in the Mideast

While Biden leaves Afghanistan and pulls back in Iraq, the U.S. military persists in Syria

Olafur Eliasson – Climate Activism Through Art

Uncharted

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PARTING SHOT

More Than Just ‘Twisties'

An Olympic gymnast says she and her fellow athletes face a lot of challenges in the sport that men don’t

Has Climate Change Reached A Crisis Point?

Some voices in the political and economic argument over climate change warn there is little time left to act, but others call those fears overblown

TikTok's Black Creators FIGHT BACK

Many of the hottest viral stars are white people who got famous doing dances by created Black performers. Now the originators want credit and payment for their work

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XI SHOW DOWN

AS BEIJING TIGHTENS ITS CONTROL, GLOBAL CEOS WEIGH THE RISKS OF DOING BUSINESS IN CHINA