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Megan McArdle is a special correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast covering business, economics, and public policy. A former senior editor at The Atlantic and writer for The Economist, Megan has a diverse work history including three small startups and a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero.
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Legal Eagles
Legal secretaries are finding it tougher to get jobs

Educational Inequality
Some college degrees are more equal than others

Some Things Are Beyond Punishment
Punishing parents whose kids have gun accidents will not promote gun safety

What Are We Going to Do About Carbon?
Despite the president's big speech, the answer remains "not much"

Affirmative Action: Who Does it Help, Who Does it Hurt?
Neither the costs nor the benefits are entirely obvious

Even Google Doesn't Do Interviews Better
Interviews are a remarkably bad way to predict job performance. Why are we still doing them?

Building a Better Clinical Trial System
Companies don't publish all their results. How can we get more information into the public domain?

Why Aren't We Creating Enough New Jobs?
Labor markets aren't adjusting to the disappearance of certain kinds of work

When Work Disappears
What do we do with people whose livelihoods are destroyed?
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