Shut out of the employment market in their 20s, hikkomori shut-ins continue to search for direction in middle age.

On Wall Street, being Black often means being alone, held back, deprived of the best opportunities.

How can you know if you’re about to get replaced by an invading algorithm or an augmented immigrant? “If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated,” Anders Sandberg, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, tells Oppenheimer. “If it can’t, it won’t.” (Rotten luck for people whose job description is “Predict the future.”)

What happens when people who have trouble fitting into a traditional workplace get one designed just for them?

A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.

Charlie Santore sees Los Angeles from the inside, by breaking into safes whose owners can no longer unlock them.

When a call center gig turns out to be something else.

A conversation with former government employees who left their posts after Trump’s election.

When your job is making it seem like body decompositions, suicides, and murders never happened.

Tereza Sedgwick trains to become a nurse aid, the fastest-growing job in America. It pays just better than minimum wage and has one of the highest burnout rates of any career.

A call for making a living with your hands.

A profile of environmental activist Van Jones.