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Myra Deshmukh is the founder of Leadership Lab. Courtesy of Myra Deshmukh This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Myra Deshmukh, the 38-year-old founder of Leadership Lab in Montclair, New Jersey. It has been edited for length and clarity. Before opening Leadership Lab, a leadership training and career coaching firm, this year, I […]

As Democrats continue to sort through the wreckage of the November election, one idea that keeps circulating is to mint a “liberal Joe Rogan,” or better yet, create a parallel ecosystem of left-liberal podcasters to rival the network that has emerged on the right. It’s not that they admire Mr. Rogan — his statements about […]

Behind inflated prescription prices, complicated insurance plans and dying local pharmacies, there is a little-known culprit: pharmacy benefit managers that operate as self-serving middlemen between drug manufacturers, insurance companies and you. Now my home state, Arkansas, is taking action against them. I am proud to be the first governor in the country to ban the […]

While Democrats across the country are engaged in a debate about how old is too old, in Iowa there is a novel movement to actually have younger people run for office. With candidates in their 30s and 40s running for governor, Senate and the House, Iowa Democrats are set to turn their red state into […]

Liat Beinin Atzili was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza for 54 days. When she returned to Israel, she learned her husband was murdered on Oct. 7. In this episode of “The Opinions,” the editor Sarah Wildman speaks to Beinin Atzili about her radically different experience from most other hostages and why she doesn’t believe […]

My professional life revolves around reading and writing books. But for years, I carried a little secret: I didn’t read much for fun or pleasure. This wasn’t always the case. As a teen I devoured books, and my library card was my most prized possession. In college, I passed the slow hours of my part-time […]

WAITING FOR BRITNEY SPEARS: A True Story, Allegedly, by Jeff Weiss In 2023, the pop princess Britney Spears published her autobiography, “The Woman in Me.” In its pages, Spears had choice words for the paparazzi who pursued her at the heights and depths of her fame. She described them as enemy combatants, the ghosts in […]

A TaskRabbit “Tasker” helps a client with the placement of frames on a wall. Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images The oft-debated recession indicator. Lipstick sales, the “men’s underwear index,” and … an increase in TaskRabbit applications? There’s been an uptick in recent years in the number of people looking to shore up […]

NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — Samoa will head to the polls on Aug. 29, a half-year earlier than expected, after Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa’s government collapsed following a budget defeat in parliament late last month. Fiamē, who became the South Pacific island nation’s first female prime minister in 2021 and ended four decades of Human […]

Andrew Cohan, founder of the private equity firm Halmos Capital, said references play a key role in his hiring process. Andrew Cohan When Andrew Cohan is hiring for a full-time role, he might spend an hour on the phone with each of a candidate’s references — and call as many as eight. “There’s never a […]