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[Outliers] Katharine Graham: The Washington Post
 When Katharine Graham took over the Washington Post in 1963, she was a shy socialite who’d never run anything. By retirement, she’d taken down a president, ended the most violent strike in a generation, and built one of the best-performing companies in American history.
Graham had no training, no experience, not even confidence. Just a newspaper bleeding money and a government that expected her to fall in line.
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WorkFire fears see Dubai crack down on illegal sublets, one of the few affordable homes for its workers Dubai is cracking down on illegal subletting in which a dozen or more migrants live in overcrowded apartments, leaving many low-paid workers scrambling for housing. Authorities have launched inspections after recent fires, including one in June at a high-rise with jerry-rigged partitioned apartments. Officials say these setups pose major safety risks. Migrant workers earning as little as $300 a month often share cramped, makeshift spaces to afford rent in a city with rising housing costs. Many now fear eviction and homelessness. Dubai Municipality defends the campaign as improving safety but hasn't addressed where displaced workers will live. Critics warn the crackdown adds stress to already precarious living conditions. WorkWorkEurope averts its Trumpian trade nightmare - The Economist (No paywall) EVER SINCE President Donald Trump unveiled his Liberation Day tariffs in April, the worlds biggest trading relationship had been on the rocks. The European Union swung from trying to sweet-talk America into making a deal, to threatening retaliation. On July 27th dealmaking won out. At his golf course in Scotland the president and Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, unveiled the outline of a preliminary trade agreement. The bloc has pulled off a tricky balancing act: making enough concessions to keep Mr Trump happy, while limiting the economic damage. Work WorkWorkWorkWorkThis Startup's Business Model? An Invite-Only Product in a $1.2 Billion Market - Inc (No paywall) Consumers are up in arms about events. After the Covid-19 pandemic, mobile app Partiful emerged as Gen-Zs favorite alternative to web-based event invite services like Facebook Events or Paperless Post. But the internet recently grew divided on the platform. Some say it ruined the way young people party, or that its quirky aesthetic is embarrassing. Others have raised questions about the companys data-sharing policies because of a possible connection with Palantir. (Partifuls founders, Shreya Murthy and Joy Tao, along with four of its employees, reportedly worked at the technology company prior to getting into the invite biz.) 
WorkCEOs trumpet smaller workforces as a sign of corporate health - WSJ (No paywall) The careful, coded corporate language executives once used in describing staff cuts is giving way to blunt boasts about ever-shrinking workforces. Gone are the days when trimming head count signaled retrenchment or trouble. Bosses are showing off to Wall Street that they are embracing artificial intelligence and serious about becoming lean. WorkWorkWork 
WorkWe Are Drinking So Much Matcha That Supplies Are Running Out Western consumers have thirsted for the health option in recent years, a trend skyrocketed by social mediaespecially through Tik Tok. At the same time, Japan has experienced a mass tourism rise in the post-pandemic yearsin 2024, Japan welcomed a record-breaking 36.9 million international visitors, surpassing the previous record of 31.9 million in 2019 leading to many mass tea companies and local vendors to report shortages of supply. WorkWorkWorkCan Democrats Neutralize Trump's Midterm Dirty Tricks? - Intelligencer (No paywall) Once again, Donald Trump has figured out a way to break all the rules in ways that force Democrats either to emulate his bad behavior or lose ground to his lawless administration and his obedient Republican Party. He has instructed the apparently reluctant Texas governor Greg Abbott to use a special legislative session designed to approve relief from the states recent deadly floods into a partisan power grab. 
WorkWorkWhat to Do When the Supreme Court Rules the Wrong Way - The New Yorker (No paywall) In February, 1983, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union in Georgia faced a dilemma. After years of looking, they believed that they had found the ideal plaintiff to challenge a state law against the offense of sodomy, which carried a sentence of one to twenty years. He was Michael Hardwick, a twenty-eight-year-old bartender who had been arrested after a police officer, following up on an old ticket for drinking in public, came into his home and found him having oral sex with another man. No one involved was a minor, or a sex worker, or afraid of being outedHardwick was openly gay. And hed immediately asked the officer a question that many jurors might have: What are you doing in my bedroom? An A.C.L.U. lawyer later said that it was the best fact pattern we will probably ever get in a sodomy law case. But, perhaps for that very reason, the Fulton County district attorney stalled on bringing it to trial. So the A.C.L.U. sued to force the issue: it was the eighties, a decade and a half after Stonewall; Georgias law was archaic and cruel. It was past time. WorkTrump eyes involuntary commitment to end homelessness - STAT (No paywall) O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYCs Radiolab and Scientific American, and her story debunking a bogus theory about transgender kids was nominated for a 2024 GLAAD Media Award. You can reach Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11. WorkHitler's Terrible Tariffs - The Atlantic (No paywall) From almost the moment Adolf Hitler took office as chancellor of Germany, tariffs were at the top of his governments economic agenda. The agricultural sectors demands for higher tariffs must be met, Hitlers economic minister, Alfred Hugenberg, declared on Wednesday, February 1, 1933, just over 48 hours into Hitlers chancellorship, while at the same time preventing harm to industry. Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath was concerned about lumber imports from Austria and a 200-million-reichsmark trade deal with Russia. With several trade agreements about to expire, Hitlers finance minister, Count Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, insisted that immediate decisions needed to be made. Hitler told his cabinet he had only one priorityto avoid unacceptable unrest in advance of the March 5 Reichstag elections, which he saw as key to his hold on power. 
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WorkWorkWorkWorkNorth Korea rejects Seoul's outreach The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has rebuffed outreach by South Korea's new liberal government, saying that North Korea has no interests in talks with South Korea, no matter what proposal its rival offers. It's North Korea's first official statement on the government of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, which took office in early June. Experts say Kim Yo Jong's comments suggest that North Korea, now preoccupied with its expanding cooperation with Russia, has no plan to return to diplomacy with South Korea and the U.S. anytime soon.
WorkHow US Space Command is preparing for satellite-on-satellite combat - The Economist (No paywall) TOWARDS THE end of last year a pair of military satellites, one American and the other French, prepared for a delicate orbital minuet. They were about to conduct a so-called rendezvous and proximity operation (RPO)in which one or more satellites approach another to inspect or manipulate itnear an enemy satellite. They have not said which, but it is not hard to guess. The French have talked about Russian manoeuvres [near French satellites] over the years, says General Stephen Whiting, speaking at the headquarters of US Space Command in Colorado Springs. And sowe demonstrated that we could both manoeuvre satellites near each other and near other countries satellites in a way that signalled our ability to operate well together. WorkThe real reason we tip Weve all been there. Maybe its when you grab a coffee in the morning or when you finish up a dinner out with friends. Maybe its when you least expect it, like at the merch table at a concert. You tap your card, only to be confronted with the dreaded tip screen. Theres a lot of talk about how much to tip and if you even should tip (more on that later), but why do we add gratuity in America in the first place? WorkWork 
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WorkWorkWorkWorkBerlin left in the dark as Washington weighs troop cuts in Europe For decades, the U.S. military presence on German soil has been the backbone of Americas global operations and a pillar of Europes defense. But as Washington prepares to reassess where its troops are based, officials in Berlin are increasingly unsure what that will mean for them. WorkWorkFive signs of a market bubble investors are tracking - WSJ (No paywall) The share price of online house flipper Opendoor Technologies has catapulted some 377% in the past month, despite a stagnant U.S. housing market. One of the biggest stock gainers Tuesday was Kohls, a department store that has been losing ground to competitors for some time and has replaced its chief executive more than once in recent years. |
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