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Office worker silhouetted in front of a window
Jobs
Workers battle tidal wave of burnout amid pandemic
How to Deal with Your Critics
Full Episode
Companies Might Have to ‘Lean In’ to Transparency by Reporting Salaries
Full Episode
The Making of Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’
Full Episode
For Many American Women, Sexual Harassment Comes With the Job
Full Episode
The Shift: Exploring America’s Rapidly Changing Workforce
Full Episode
Tsegay
Jobs
Organizations try to fight ‘brain waste’ and get highly trained immigrants back to work
A Ukrainian miner sleeps on a coal trolley in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk in May 1998.
Business
World’s longest workday? It may not be where you think it is.
Problematic Polls, Race on the Job, Neighbors to the North
Full Episode
housework wash dishes
Development
64 percent of women’s work is unpaid. Find out how much of your work is with this tool.
The Red Web, Prisoners Go Home, Buzzwords
Full Episode
metro north passenger boarding train
Lifestyle
Do you work harder than the average American? Find out with this tool.
working mom india
Lifestyle
Harvard study finds that daughters of working mothers earn more money
Lifestyle & Belief
An Old Wise Man Once Said
Lifestyle & Belief
My Poet, My Novelist
Arts, Culture & Media
This Is Their Youth
Lifestyle & Belief
Willing to be Lucky
Arts, Culture & Media
Listener’s Lesson of the Year: Hard Work Pays Off
Arts, Culture & Media
The Takeaway’s 2010 Breakup Quiz
Lifestyle & Belief
Back from Afghanistan, soldiers look to a New Year and new life
Lifestyle & Belief
Listeners respond: when women earn more than men
Environment
Oil spill: a farewell to the Gulf coast’s lifestyle?
A man from Awra Amba plows the land adjoining the village.
Development & Education
This Ethiopian village has gained wealth, but has bred hostility
Lifestyle & Belief
German Hipsters Not Winning Friends in Berlin
Lifestyle & Belief
Nairobi Reels as Militant Shopping Mall Siege Continues
Lifestyle & Belief
Art Nabbed a Parking Spot in Ireland’s Busiest City
Lifestyle & Belief
A Touch of India in North Carolina
Lifestyle & Belief
Haitian Novelist Edwidge Danticat Talks Love, Loss and the Power of Radio
Conflict & Justice
One Iraqi Family Adjusts to a New Life in the US
Conflict & Justice
Immigrants Fight to Curb Controversial S-Comm Program
Global Politics
Some Syrians Fear an Escalation of Civil War if US Military Strikes
Development & Education
Backpacks as Canvas for Self Expression for COSAT Students
Global Politics
Lima Officials Urging Marriage, Many Getting Hitched at Mass Ceremonies
Lifestyle & Belief
First Days: Deepak Singh on arriving to America and southern hospitality
Global Politics
Residents of Istanbul Neighborhood Take A Colorful Stand
Lifestyle & Belief
The Secret Behind Finland’s Super Smart School Kids? Recess.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Pakistani Student Creates a Shantytown School to Change Society
Arts, Culture & Media
How Fluid Mechanics Helped Trippers for the Last 50 Years
Conflict & Justice
How French President Francois Hollande Spent his Summer ‘Staycation’
Lifestyle & Belief
Remembering Seamus Heaney, an Irish Poet ‘Bigger than Rock Stars’
Lifestyle & Belief
Photographer Documents Middle Eastern Teenagers
Lifestyle & Belief
Six Stories of Hope in the Middle East
Lifestyle & Belief
Inside Gay Pakistan
Lifestyle & Belief
In Remote Spanish Town, a Glimmer of Hope in Tantalum
Arts, Culture & Media
Chinese Tennis Star Li Na Does it Her Way
Arts, Culture & Media
India Food Subsidies and Maharaja Macs
Arts, Culture & Media
On a Razor’s Edge: Beards and Reforms in Iran
Conflict & Justice
Egypt’s Tourism Industry Grinds to a Halt
Conflict & Justice
Egyptian expats in the US feel chaos from afar
Health & Medicine
Part III: Infertile in a Land of Kids
Lifestyle & Belief
New Year’s Resolution: Day by Day, Page by Page
Conflict & Justice
Sharp Rise in Americans Giving Up Citizenship
Business, Economics and Jobs
Living on Call Center Time in the Philippines
Arts, Culture & Media
Getting Inked: The Story Behind Traditional Maori Tattoos
Arts, Culture & Media
A Push to Keep the Zapotec Language Alive in Los Angeles
Arts, Culture & Media
Generation Kill
Development & Education
The Trials of Teaching: Fighting Burnout in the Classroom
Lifestyle & Belief
For People and Leopards Outside Mumbai, it’s Largely Live and Let Live
Living Goddess in Nepal
Development & Education
Nepal’s Living Goddess a Centuries-Old Tradition
Lifestyle & Belief
A Conversation with Alison Spann, Daughter of First Fallen American in Afghanistan