James Dennin

Editor’s note: What will the future hold for LGBTQ rights and representation? With this year’s Beyond Pride series, Mic looks forward to see how the radical changes in recent years will continue to transform our culture in the worlds of politics,…

Everyone gets anxious when they get their first big professional break. For me, the sense of imposter syndrome at my first big media job was particularly acute: Here I was about to start exhorting readers to save, invest and budget. Meanwhile, I…

Plenty of Americans are ducking out of the office a little early to get their Memorial Day weekends started. In Boston, Houston and Atlanta, the long weekend might already have begun: According to AAA, the worst times to hit the road on Memorial Day…

More than 60 million workers just lost the right to take their employers to court in the event of wage theft, sexual harassment and other disputes — all thanks to the Supreme Court. The nation’s highest court ruled Monday that employees who agree to…

Spending less than a third of your income on rent — as personal finance experts often encourage — is often a lot easier said than done. In markets like New York, San Francisco and Boston, spending under a third of your income on the median rent…

For a culture that valorizes work, we sure do spend a lot of our professional lives running out the clock and wasting time. Despite the long hours, people only spend about 3.6 hours actually working, according to estimates from the Department of…

You don’t need to wind up stranded on a desert island for the process of buying event tickets online to leave a bad taste in your mouth. Ticket-grabbing bots, a stressful countdown timer and inexplicable “service” fees are a few of the annoyances…

The push to diversify corporate America and the tech industry has come in fits and starts. For example, big companies like Google and Facebook began publishing their demographic information years ago in a gesture of accountability. And yet the most…

The rise of large for-profit colleges has left a growing group of distressed borrowers in its wake. The crisis arguably peaked in 2015, when a conglomerate called Corinthian abruptly shut down, unenrolling 16,000 students regardless of the status of…