Alexandr Wang

Putting out a ton of songs and albums has become passé. Live music seems the only thing in vogue.

In an all-too-literal take on the aphorism “dress for the job you want, not the one you have,” preppy clothes-maker J.Crew has struck up a partnership with aspirational career companies WeWork and LinkedIn.

Work—the very meaning of the word—is undergoing metamorphosis. In a few years’ time, traditional office employees all over will find themselves suddenly working for themselves, working freelance, or perhaps out of work entirely and seeking a new path forward.

They did it, essentially, in their sleep.

Americans are as eager to work as ever. Just no longer for somebody else.

Finding the right words to describe your last job no longer needs to be a thesaurus-combing ordeal. Microsoft and LinkedIn can automatically do it for you.

First, we quit listening—then, buying. Now we’re on track to stop seeing them altogether.

The title of the American rock duo MGMT’s newly released (Feb. 9) album, Little Dark Age, should be enough of a hint: It is a record about technology. More accurately, it is a record about the dystopia of technology, joining a swell of Black Mirror-like entertainment that rails against the modern world and its addictions to all sorts of screens.

The bright, tidy aisles of a grocery store—or thousands of grocery stores, rather—are the newest battleground in the fight for pay equality.

Legendary American singer-songwriter Paul Simon is making his last rounds.

The critics were plentiful. They claimed Apple Music, launched in the summer of 2015 into an already-crowded music-streaming market, would never catch up to the likes of industry leader Spotify—and that it would flop. If not immediately, then soon after.

Attempting to both empower shareholders in the post-crisis era and curb unjustified CEO pay, the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled in 2015 that public companies in the US must report how much their CEO earn, in relation to the salary of their median employee. Equilar, a data firm that tracks executive compensation, surveyed 356 companies to find out the CEO pay ratio that they plan to disclose in their 2018 proxy statements, and the company released its report last week.

Reporting sexual harassment—not to mention professional misconduct, bullying, unfairness, or other workplace grievances—is not only a matter of speaking up. It is also a matter of being allowed to do so.

The ever-expanding cannabis industry has reached new heights—so to speak—as it is now being used as a financial case study for some of the world’s most elite business school students.

Jeff Bezos’ Amazon empire—which recently dabbled in home security, opened artificial intelligence-powered grocery stores, and started planning a second headquarters (and manufactured a vicious national competition out of it)—has not been idle in 2018.

Music’s starriest night is upon us. This Sunday, Jan. 28, New York City’s Madison Square Garden will light up for the 60th Grammy Awards—hosted by Carpool Karaoke lead James Corden, and featuring hotly anticipated performances from the likes of Bruno Mars, Jay-Z, Sting, Rihanna, Cardi B, Lady Gaga, Kesha, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, SZA, Kendrick Lamar, and U2—and the show is set to be one of the most diverse and powerful in the ceremony’s history.

When the Grammy Awards come on next weekend (Jan. 28), nominations for one of the most distinguished honors—song of the year—will spotlight a track not about love or lust or fame, but dying. Dying by one’s own hand, to be specific.

Students at Oxford University last summer were given 15 minutes more than usual to take mathematics and computer science exams, not because the questions were harder or longer than before—but because Oxford was trying to help women.

Just how rich are the very rich? UK-based charity Oxfam quantified the answer in an update today to its annual inequality report. Per the report (pdf), today’s global billionaires:

If your primary aim is to rake in millions, save your time and put the law school applications down now. It wouldn’t be a good bet.

At $1.3 trillion, America’s pile of student loan debt is near-incomprehensible in size.

The measure of a man, according to Plato, is what he does with his power. Wall Street’s Bill Miller has taken the adage to heart, donating $75 million to philosophy—a branch of study that has been critical, he says, to decisions he has made in his career.

Women make up 24% of the workers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (or “STEM”) fields in the US, according to Census Bureau data. A new Pew Research Center analysis offers a grimmer statistic to layer on top of that: Half those women—despite comprising a fourth of the workforce—have experienced gender discrimination at work.

Racism in the Donald Trump era can be a delicate subject—particularly if it calls out a specific demographic as the perpetrator. Put that subject into an academic setting, in a politically tempestuous US state, and you have a potential powder keg.