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Emily Henderson

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Emily Henderson is a former intern at Marketplace.

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The robots aren't coming for your job just yet

Aug 30, 2017
James Surowiecki talks about why we don't need to fear the "Robopocalypse."
BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images

As Hurricane Harvey bears down on Texas, oil refineries are shutting down

Aug 25, 2017
It's a long process that starts 48 hours before the storm makes landfall. Starting back up can take even longer.
A local resident photographs the beach as Hurricane Harvey approaches in Corpus Christi, Texas, today.
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images

Minecraft has real-world life lessons to teach us

Aug 23, 2017
Max Brooks talks about his new book "Minecraft: The Island" and what he learned from playing the online game.
Photo by LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images

Cloudflare's CEO wants to talk about who censors the internet

Matthew Prince terminated the account of extremist website The Daily Stormer, but he's still worried about censorship.
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, says the company has tried to be neutral.
Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for TechCrunch

Keeping jobs in the U.S. just doesn't make sense for Carrier's bottom line

James Briggs from the Indianapolis Star gives an update on the layoffs at the furnace and air conditioner factory.

Greenbelt, Maryland, can't hide its town pride

Aug 18, 2017
Photographer Jason Reblando tells the story of America's historic greenbelt towns.
"Daffodil House" in Greendale, Wisconsin.
Courtesy of Jason Reblando

Do viewers want film and TV to directly confront racism?

Aug 16, 2017
New York Times culture critic Wesley Morris discusses the way race and culture intersect in the aftermath of Charlottesville.
Hundreds of people gather Sunday for a vigil on the spot where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when a car plowed into a crowd of people protesting against the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

People are "begging" for plus-size fashion

The change in the market has been driven by the community, writer Ashley C. Ford says.
A view of the crowd during the Glamour x Lane Bryant Collection Launch at Lane Bryant in New York City in 2016.
Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Glamour

The decline in laundromats shows how US cities are changing

Once an urban staple, the businesses are decreasing as developers transform neighborhoods. But people still depend on them.
A woman empties a washing machine in a laundromat. 
Mike Lawn/Evening Standard/Getty Images

Checks are the economic dinosaurs Americans won't give up

Aug 7, 2017
In the U.S., people wrote about 38 checks on average in 2015, compared to 18 in Canada, 8 in the U.K., and almost none in Germany.
A woman writes a check. 
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