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Each year, I keep a running list of exceptional nonfiction that I encounter as I publish The Best of Journalism, an email newsletter that I curate weekly for its subscribers. This is my annual attempt to bring some of those stories to a wider audience...

For the past few months, we’ve been running a series on the nature of the male status. Today we conclude the series with an installment on how one’s status drive can be harnessed and managed in the healthiest possible way. This is an ebook-length article...

On the morning of Thursday, July 12, 2012, Yahoo’s interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, still believed he was going to be named permanent CEO of the company. He had just one meeting to go. That meeting was a board meeting to be held that day in a large...

Strategy is everywhere in our society. But strategy in practice seems to be a cruel and even silly joke. I learned that the hard way when I went to college long before I ever studied strategy formally. My own “strategy” about how to get through college...

It’s a good year for new TV series, but it may be an even better one for returning shows. When most people talk about "fall TV," they're talking about the huge glut of new shows that networks — broadcast, cable, and streaming — put on the air between...