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When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global manager of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. She had nearly two decades of
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Illustration: Martin Gee This story is the first in a two-part series about the inner workings of Netflix’s homepage. Read the second story here . Ten years ago, Netflix got the idea that its app shou
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P ete Pete Buttigieg was not an obvious choice for secretary of transportation. As mayor of South Bend, Indiana, he oversaw a public transportation system with an annual ridership of about 2.5 million
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Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly and finance. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Or just read on… Today’s issue is about why Biden needs to keep McKinsey away fr
The day after Thanksgiving 2019, residents of Chippewa Township, Pennsylvania, watched from their windows as state and local police combed through their backyards looking for Kyle Michael Jones. Jones
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Magazine How America’s center-right party started to lose its mind, as told by the man who tried to keep it sane. POLITICO illustration/Photo by Getty Images By JOHN BOEHNER 04/02/2021 05:36 AM EDT Jo
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Many employers made dramatic commitments after the murder of George Floyd last year about making their workplaces (and leadership teams) more equitable. Despite this, most of the tech industry, which
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Maya Kosoff Just now · 5 min read I knew this would happen at some point in the pandemic, but this is the week I finally feel like I’m fully losing my mind. I am going to go ahead and assume you are a
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At Google X, the company’s now-not-so-top-secret R&D lab, engineers and neuroscientists and artificial-intelligence experts dream up a future without the pressure of market deadlines: driverless cars,
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