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  • Mar 14, 2018

    State Department role not limited to diplomacy

    International reaction to President Trump’s firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been muted. One of the few public statements today came from Germany’s deputy foreign minister, who said it would not improve ties with his country. The State Department will face some tough challenges globally in the months ahead — everything from North […]

  • Mar 13, 2018

    For American children of Mexican immigrants, a battle to get documented in Mexico

    Daniela Silva Abascal and her father Daniel Silva Soto at home in Puebla, Mexico.
    Jorge Valencia for Marketplace

    More than a quarter million people who were born in the U.S. to Mexican parents live in Mexico and haven’t been registered in either place.

  • Mar 13, 2018

    How do millions of workers with no legal protection stand up to sexual harassment?

    There are up to 2 million people going to work in homes across America. Many of these domestic workers have little-to-no legal protections, and many of them experience sexual harassment or assault. Marketplace’s Molly Wood and Kai Ryssdal speak with Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance about how that is changing. Hear […]

  • Mar 13, 2018

    China moves to tighten control of the internet

    In China, the internet is censored. You can’t get access to Google, or Facebook or Twitter unless you have a workaround known as a virtual private network. VPN technology lets users jump over the so-called Great Firewall of China. But now those jumping days could be ending. By month’s end, Beijing plans to block all VPN […]

  • Mar 12, 2018

    Does tech designed to personalize learning actually benefit students?

    Fifth graders working in a math class at AltSchool Yerba Buena. 
    Sarah Tan/Marketplace

    Learning platforms that create individualized curriculums for student are a growing industry.

  • Mar 12, 2018

    Why the U.S. might be the original startup story

    A role player in Plymouth, Massachusetts, tends cows at Plimoth Plantation. The 17th century replica village was the site of the first Thanksgiving in 1623.
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images

    The Pilgrims were early colonial entrepreneurs — but they weren't the first.

  • Mar 12, 2018

    African-American unemployment is nearly twice as high as white unemployment

    A job seeker fills out a registration form as he waits to enter the San Francisco Hirevent job fair at the Hotel Whitcomb on March 27, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    Black women are starting their own businesses at the highest rate of any demographic group, report says.

  • Mar 12, 2018

    How William Perkin’s search for a malaria cure led to the color mauve

    The original mauve — similar to the shade depicted in this image — was much brighter than the color we know today.
    William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

    A teenager tinkering in his lab invented a brilliant synthetic shade of purple in Victorian England.

  • Mar 10, 2018

    Jobs report: What’s not to like?

    Surrounded by steel and aluminum workers, President Donald Trump signs a proclamation on steel imports at the White House on March 8.
    Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    More than 300,000 jobs were added to the economy last month.

  • Mar 10, 2018

    Black Panther misses merchandise bonanza

    The Black Panther phenomenon continues. The Marvel — really, the Disney — blockbuster opened in China today, bringing its estimated box office to $920 million worldwide. It’s the perfect time for retailers to cash in on the movie’s success with a slew of Panther-themed merchandise: toys, t-shirts, tote bags and more. Turns out, though, that […]

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