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Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt

by Automattic December 1, 2013October 19, 2022

A multimedia report on how the global economy works, from the perspective of the people making a T-shirt for NPR: In the case of the Planet Money T-shirt, the buyer is Jockey. The company told us that the pattern of pulling out when wages rise may be coming to an end for now, because there’s […]

Books, Nonfiction, Quotes

What Wall Street and Teach For America Have in Common

by mikedang February 23, 2014October 19, 2022

Mike: Jeremy and Samson seemed so miserable and I was rooting for them to quit and do something else. But something seemed to be holding them back—they didn’t like the idea of leaving the well-paid jobs they hated for an uncertain future. Which is funny to me, because being worried about an uncertain future is […]

Nonfiction, Reading List

A Brief History of Disney

by heymarkarms June 19, 2014October 19, 2022

Here’s a reading list exploring Disney’s more than 80-year grip on popular culture—the animation, the music, the princesses, and the parents killed off in the First Act.

Books, First Chapters, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story

Without Chief or Tribe: An Expat’s Guide to Having a Baby in Saudi Arabia

by Longreads May 29, 2014February 22, 2023

Nathan Deuel | Friday Was the Bomb | May 2014 | 21 minutes (5,178 words) For our latest Longreads Member Pick, we’re thrilled to share a full chapter from Friday Was the Bomb, the new book by Nathan Deuel about moving to the Middle East with his wife in 2008. Deuel has been featured on […]