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Deep State Diaries

“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated”

Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.
Deep State Diaries

Killing the Military’s Consumer Watchdog

A unit inside the C.F.P.B. protects servicemembers and veterans from financial scams. The Trump Administration has tried to stop it.
Deep State Diaries

Inside the DOGE Threat to Social Security

A day in the life of a claims rep for America’s largest government program.
Deep State Diaries

“We Are Considering You as Being Terminated”

Zain Shirazi, inspired by his family’s experience of post-9/11 racism, has been fighting workplace harassment for the federal government. The Trump Administration fired him.
The Financial Page

The Musk-Trump War on Federal Employees Doesn’t Add Up

DOGE operatives claim that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. Let’s do the math.
The Weekend Essay

Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

Ads are scarce, search and social traffic is dying, and readers are burned out. The future will require fundamentally rethinking the press’s relationship to its audience.
Annals of Technology

What We Lost When Twitter Became X

As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the Internet’s most paradoxical, special places.
Shouts & Murmurs

Scaled-Back Benefits for a Silicon Valley Recession

The annual conference is moving from Maui to the Metaverse—an equally exotic locale! And we’re discontinuing fertility assistance, but that went without saying, right?
Annals of Communications

What Happened to the Washington Post?

After a decade of growth, the paper is laying off staff and was reportedly on track to lose money last year. Its publisher and C.E.O. says it’s all part of a bold strategy.
Shouts & Murmurs

I’m Sorry to Announce Layoffs at Ye Olde Colonial Village

After ample reflection and prayer, I have made the painful decision to downsize our blessed hamlet.
Satire from The Borowitz Report

Elon Musk Accidentally Includes Himself in Latest Round of Mass Layoffs

Musk attempted to tweet a call for assistance, but found that his Twitter password had been changed and his blue check removed.
Infinite Scroll

A Twitter Employee’s Account of Surviving Layoff Day

“I actually wanted to get laid off.”
Currency

The Fight to Save Jobs in the Airline Industry

The head of the flight attendants’ union is lobbying Congress to extend protections for workers who have been grounded by the coronavirus pandemic.
As Told To

The Reporter Who Wrote About Layoffs at the Cleveland Plain Dealer After He Was Laid Off

The veteran writer and editor Tom Feran talks about what it was like to witness the industry’s decline over nearly thirty years of working for the Cleveland paper.
Annals of Finance

The Death of Kings

Career Counselling

Take Two

Shouts & Murmurs

Memo from the C.E.O.

The Financial Page

Nice Work If You Can Get It

A Reporter at Large

The Ponzi State