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Why I’m spending Pride month fighting gun violence

Gun violence has touched my communities as a gay man, a person of color, and a teacher. Two years after Pulse, I’m confident the gun-control coalition will prevail.

Why I’m spending Pride month fighting gun violence

The government’s brand-new gig economy data is already outdated

The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released its first survey of the contingent workforce in 13 years. It’s a welcome snapshot, but freelancers deserve better.

Why Facebook’s restrictions on data worry me

Data from social media giants must be better protected, but Facebook’s recent data scandal could unintentionally hurt science.

Why Facebook’s restrictions on data worry me

Campbell Soup needs a rule-breaker CEO

After Denise Morrison’s exit, the embattled food brand should take one crucial lesson from former CEO Doug Conant’s playbook in its search for a new leader.

Campbell Soup needs a rule-breaker CEO

“Masterpiece Cakeshop” means inclusive companies have more work to do

The Supreme Court decision reaffirms LGBT rights, but a campaign to undermine them is gathering force. Inclusive companies will be crucial in stopping it.

“Masterpiece Cakeshop” means inclusive companies have more work to do

How Apple (and Google, too) could help fix fake news

Google News relies on algorithm-based curation, while Apple adds human beings to the process.

How Apple (and Google, too) could help fix fake news

Rex Tillerson’s failures should send corporate leaders soul searching

Politicians with executive experience differ wildly, yet the ideal that propels them to office is alarmingly similar–and rests on shaky premises.

Rex Tillerson’s failures should send corporate leaders soul searching

Here’s the thing about the word “c**t”

Samantha Bee was using the word in the same vitriolic way that men use it to it insult and intimidate women.

Here’s the thing about the word “c**t”

Here’s the least helpful graduation advice of 2018

Some commencement speakers said downright offensive things this year. Others were were well-meaning but tone-deaf, or just annoyingly obvious.

Here’s the least helpful graduation advice of 2018

Is Tom Peters’s long-running “excellence” gospel burning us out?

The management guru has promoted an approach to talent and performance that may need updating for the automation age. Still, many of Peters’s key tenets hold up.

Is Tom Peters’s long-running “excellence” gospel burning us out?

Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too

The time has come.

Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too

MI6 is trying to shake its James Bond problem with this video

The British spy agency is trying to recruit a more diverse workforce with a new ad, promising “secretly, we’re just like you.”

MI6 is trying to shake its James Bond problem with this video

Our obsession with performance data is killing performance

In business, education, law enforcement, surgery, and more, one researcher finds that performance outcomes drop when people know how they’re being measured.

Our obsession with performance data is killing performance

Why Instagram is the best window into Trump-era corruption

Twitter may be the president’s id, but the image-sharing platform better reflects the ethos of the Trump era—the conflicts of interest, the naked ambition.

Why Instagram is the best window into Trump-era corruption

The NBA and NFL offer opposite versions of American brand image

In one day, the two sports leagues illustrated their contrasting brand images by embodying the ongoing debate around police brutality, patriotism, and protest.

We analyzed Trump’s Kim Jong-un letter: It’s a bad breakup note

Unpacking the missive’s rhetoric, one communications expert explains why the commander-in-chief sounds more like a jilted lover than a diplomat.

We analyzed Trump’s Kim Jong-un letter: It’s a bad breakup note

What Elon Musk and Donald Trump don’t get about journalism

An investigation into Tesla’s factory conditions sent the testy CEO into a rant that showcased a Trump-like misapprehension of how journalists work.

What Elon Musk and Donald Trump don’t get about journalism

Dodd-Frank: Congress just wound back Wall Street’s clock and throttled innovation

With financial deregulation headed to President Trump’s desk, more major banks will soon return to business as usual. Innovators will find it harder to compete, and Main Street will pay the price.

Dodd-Frank: Congress just wound back Wall Street’s clock and throttled innovation

Software is making it easier to cheat workers

Companies are using software and “rounding” to shortchange workers a few minutes at a time, according to hundreds of court cases.

Software is making it easier to cheat workers

In America, corporations get to be people but workers don’t

The Supreme Court just upheld forced arbitration, making it harder for workers to file class-action suits against employers. But there’s still strength in numbers at the voting booth.

In America, corporations get to be people but workers don’t

Ideas

Synthetic rhino horns are supposed to disrupt poaching. Will they work?

Impact investing is booming–but not nearly enough to make radical change

This real estate company figured out a simple way to offer the homeless a house and a job

Entertainment

Trump inadvertently gets Twitter to explain why rape often goes unreported

Michel Gondry’s no-bs trick to getting the best out of Jim Carrey for “Kidding”

Fast Company Innovation Festival adds Pharrell Williams, Jennifer Garner

Co.Design

PSA: These 1,400 museums are free tomorrow

The ice cream of the future is here, and it has a nipple

Amazon wants to be all around you–even in your microwave

Fast Company

Your startup is failing, now what?

Synthetic rhino horns are supposed to disrupt poaching. Will they work?

NYT: Rod Rosenstein proposed taping Trump, using 25th Amendment