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Recent victories by Democratic gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia and for seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission have led outlets like Politico to brand the outcomes as the ...

A list of the world’s most misunderstood creatures includes sharks, bats and us—at least when we talk about our careers. LinkedIn estimates one in five Americans has a job that didn’t exist in 2000.

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Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...