The long, strange decline of one of America's most influential brands

Tech Insider
A bowl of Chicken soup overflowing into smaller bowls

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Editor's note: Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday. This story was first published on March 31.

Job interviews are about to get a whole lot more stressful

Tech Insider : Sports, Sports
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Taking the S2, which measures cognitive capacities like your reaction time and ability to control distractions, feels like a cross between playing Pong and taking an eye exam.

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America's crisis of meaningless work

Tech Insider : Economy
Image of a statue thinking and a briefcase.
Americans are increasingly feeling like their jobs are meaningless. It could be why they aren't engaged at work.

Ricardo Tomás for BI

American workers are not all right.

How fertility clinics are scaring young women into freezing their eggs

Tech Insider : Economy
Fertility clinics are targeting Gen Z — and young women are paying the price.
Fertility clinics are taking to social media to tell young people the earlier they can freeze their eggs, the better. But that's not always the case.

Abanti Chowdhury/BI

The retirement Catch-22

Tech Insider : Economy
old worker worries about his job prospects
Age discrimination undermines Larry Fink's "solution" to the retirement crisis.

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The chancellor, his porn films, and the battle for America's soul

Tech Insider
Jow Gow and wife
Joe Gow and Carmen Wilson pursued porn as a hobby. Now they're fighting a battle over academic freedom.

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Praise be: Travel agents are back

Tech Insider : Travel, Economy, Travel
Photo illustration of a white glove holding up a vacation tray.
Travel agents are pitching overwhelmed millennials and Gen Zers a stress-free vacation.

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Forget red and blue: America's real geographic divide is between bosses and their employees

Tech Insider : Economy
Flag map of the United States with a broken appearance, featuring money location pins roughly positioned over San Francisco, New York, and Miami

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Housing is a basic need. No matter how expensive it gets, people still need somewhere to live.

Silicon Valley needs a new kind of savior

Tech Insider : Economy
Four neckties and a hammer
The clear way to save Silicon Valley is to return the industry to the people who actually build tech to solve problems.

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Millennials have a favorite parenting style. It isn't working.

Tech Insider
How gentle parenting went bust.
Parents are giving up on gentle parenting after finding that the guidance is confusing or just doesn't work for their kids.

Oxygen/Getty Images, Abanti Chowdhury/BI

My first exposure to gentle parenting ended in projectile vomiting.

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