Anna Kramer

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Gene-Edited Yeast Is Taking Over Craft Beer

It’s 2013 and the craft beer boom is blooming across the United States. Eager young brewers are placing huge orders for new hop varieties that will soon make IPAs ubiquitous. Citra. Mosaic....

To Make a Greener Building, Start With an Old One

Next time you find yourself in a new-ish US office building, scan the walls visible from the entryway. Within seconds, you are almost guaranteed to find a glittering circular plaque embossed with...

Microsoft’s New Campus Drove Up Home Prices. Where Are the Jobs?

On the west side of Atlanta, Georgia, nestled along the city’s 22-mile beltline walking trail and the largest park in the city, sits one of the last remaining undeveloped tracts of land...

Welcome to the Comfy Office of the Future

Picture yourself living in the manicured, walkable suburbs of Bethesda, Maryland. You work full-time at a multinational corporation, but your two children and two dogs require seemingly constant attention. Pandemic lockdown was...

Amazon’s HQ2 Aimed to Show Tech Can Boost Cities. Now It’s on Pause

After a dramatic competition that pitted US cities against one another, years of contested planning, and claims of unwavering commitment despite the pandemic, Amazon now says its plan for a second headquarters, aka...

Layoffs Broke Big Tech’s Elite College Hiring Pipeline

Eva Xie did it right. She went to the highly competitive Bronx High School of Science in New York City and then MIT, where she studied math and computer science with a specialization...

A Damning US Report Lays Bare Amazon’s Worker Injury Crisis

Amazon was hit with an unusually forceful safety citation by federal investigators in the US today. The findings appear to back up what some workers at the company have long alleged: that the...

Big Tech’s Layoffs Highlight How the US Fails Immigrant Workers

Tens of thousands of people have been laid off at Amazon, Meta, Salesforce and other once-voracious tech employers in recent months. But one group of workers has been particularly shortchanged: US immigrants...

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