The workplace environment at the company’s magazine division was troubled under Troy Young. And it may not have been good for ambitious investigative journalism, either.
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Atossa AbrahamianI also had an investigation about sexual harassment killed by a Hearst pub (for understandable reasons)—but I’ll never forget being told that the protagonist in my initial pitch wasn’t young and pretty enough for the mag’s demographic!
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Our struggle is not an emotional concern. We are not burned out. We are being crushed by an economy that has bafflingly declared working parents inessential.
Amazon.com: The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (Columbia Global Reports) (Audible Audio Edition): Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Bernadette Dunne, Random House Audio: Audible Audiobooks
The Nation seeks an Associate Editor. Candidates should be news and politics junkies with the ability to edit everything from short op-eds and comments to long-form features and essays.
While concrete design information has yet to be released, Indonesia has revealed the two design firms that will work on its new capital city.
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Atossa AbrahamianIndonesia's new "smart" capital city is being master-planned by Tony Blair, McKinsey, SoftBank and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. What could *possibly* go wrong?
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The world could be witnessing a fundamental shift in the very nature of the global economy.
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Atossa AbrahamianThis @ForeignAffairs piece by @BrankoMilan charts the clearest and most convincing (though by no means inevitable) road to "de-globalization" I've read so far
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The only certainty is that rich countries and rich classes will focus on saving themselves to the exclusion of international solidarity and medical aid.
As it aims to stem the flow of migrants from Africa and bring about change in a dictatorship, the European Union is spending millions on projects built by people in forced conscription.
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Atossa Abrahamianit's 2020! time to stop using expressions like "stem the flow of migrants" to describe humans moving to another country. i know dek space is limited but come on!
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I want to focus on the question of patriotism. If an American child and a Peruvian child were drowning, would you rush to save the American child first? If you were in charge of feeding an international crowd of travelers …
In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth said he “desperately” wanted the president to lose. But, he said, the company should avoid hurting Mr. Trump’s campaign.
The U.S. was hostile to the WTO for years. Then came Donald Trump.
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Atossa AbrahamianThe WTO has been withering for years, and on Wednesday, it will open its doors shorn of its most significant powers. Read @toddntucker on what what the right—and the left—did wrong
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