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An Impressive Jobs Report Shows the U.S. Economy Powering Into an Election Year

Strong employment growth and improving consumer sentiment are good news for any Presidential incumbent seeking reëlection.
Our Columnists

Americans Are Finally Starting to Feel Better About the Economy

Consumer sentiment, among Democrats and Republicans, has jumped sharply in the past two months. That’s encouraging news for Joe Biden.
Shouts & Murmurs

One Woman’s History of Unpaid Labor in Romantic Relationships

Including but not limited to working as a dog-walker and trainer and acting as a public-relations specialist.
Annals of Inquiry

What Happens When Jobs Are Guaranteed?

In a small Austrian village, an experimental program finds—or creates—work for the unemployed.
Shouts & Murmurs

Some of My Dream Jobs

Someone should be making family trees of all the pets I know.
Campaign Chronicles

Can Organized Labor Win Back Wisconsin?

The Senate race between Ron Johnson and Mandela Barnes is a battle between two visions of how jobs are made and kept.
Our Columnists

Biden Heads for the Midterms with Ten Million New Jobs

Inflation is still a cause for concern, but no other President has had this pace of job growth in their first two years in office.
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 12th

“Quiet quitting was O.K. for a while, but loud quitting gave me the results I wanted.”
Shouts & Murmurs

If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

We loved your role-play with Benjamin Franklin! We want to hire you, probably.
Cultural Comment

The New Season of “Industry” and the Rise of Workplace TV

Not since “Mad Men” has a show had so much fun exploring the shadowy chaos that can develop when too many young people spend too much time at the office.
Shouts & Murmurs

Other Great Resignations

Because working for someone else has always been insufferable.
Our Columnists

How the U.S. Economy Defied Omicron to Add Nearly Half a Million Jobs

More people worked from home, but employers kept hiring, giving the Biden Administration an unexpected political lift.
Our Columnists

Joe Biden Starts to Make His Economic Case

Inflation is a big challenge, but job growth reached record levels in 2021 and wages rose for many low-paid workers.
Letter from Fuling

China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class

My students from the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they’re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.
Office Space

Revisiting “The 4-Hour Workweek”

How Tim Ferriss’s 2007 manifesto anticipated our current moment of professional upheaval.
Our Columnists

When It Comes to Jobs: It’s the Pandemic, Stupid

More than any other factor, the spread of COVID is limiting how many Americans are able to find work.
Our Columnists

It’s Still the Coronavirus Economy

A disappointing jobs report shows that mass vaccination hasn’t yet broken the link between the pandemic and our economic fortunes.
Office Space

Why Are So Many Knowledge Workers Quitting?

The coronavirus pandemic threw everyone into Walden Pond.
Our Columnists

Three Big Takeaways from a Strong July Jobs Report

The Biden economy is growing, but there’s a great need, and a great potential, for further job growth.
The New Yorker Radio Hour

The Battle Over Britney Spears’s Conservatorship

Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino speak with David Remnick about the pop star’s legal fight to regain control of nearly all aspects of her life.