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Ellis Island is America's most famous historical entry point and helped define the American story. But the story of the border city of El Paso is perhaps more informative for our current moment. El Paso native Jasmine Ulloa explains why we "need to restore El Paso to its rightful position: at the center, rather than at the margins of our American story."
Cal Newport's Deep Work was published ten years ago. A seminal work on how to resist the depth-destroying distractions of the modern age and cultivate the ability to work deeply, the book's diagnosis of the modern workplace has proven prescient. Newport’s plan of action for overcoming the impediments to deliberate and deep work is becoming even more important as digital technology advances into even the most intimate aspects of our cognitive lives and work.
There is a group of people in America who go to work every day to protect our fundamental rights—who defend individuals and the Constitution in court, acting as a last bulwark against government overreach. They are the country's public defenders. Emily Galvin Almanza takes us behind the closed doors of America's criminal courts to shed light on the system and advocate for a reimagining of our legal infrastructure.
Meetings are broken. Rebecca Hinds—an organizational expert and author of Your Best Meeting Ever—offers a bold, battle-tested blueprint for tackling the workplace’s biggest time-wasters.
Our attention—that essential ability to give our minds and senses to the world—is being trapped, gutted, and sold out from under us by an industry of immense technological and financial power, and individual willpower and isolated efforts to resist are not enough. We need a movement of collective resistance.
