The Edit: Former Interns Tell How They Landed a First Job

View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Monday, April 24, 2017 [NYTimes.com »]( [Zane McPhee as an intern with the minor league team the Walla Walla Sweets. It took a few years to make it to the majors.]( Zane McPhee as an intern with the minor league team the Walla Walla Sweets. It took a few years to make it to the majors. Greg Lehman/Whitman College [How They Got There]( [Former Interns Tell How They Landed a First Job]( By JEFFREY J. SELINGO More companies are drawing from their intern pools, making that last internship the most important. “It’s all about trying before you buy.” ADVERTISEMENT Trending on Social James Steinberg Popular on Facebook [6 Reasons You May Not Graduate on Time]( By MEREDITH KOLODNER And what you can do about it. [Ilya and Nohcho, gay men from Chechnya, sought refuge at a house outside the Caucasus region in southern Russia. Both were arrested in a pogrom and tortured.]( James Hill for The New York Times Popular on Twitter [‘They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya]( By ANDREW E. KRAMER Using classic K.G.B. tactics, security officers lured gay men into traps and tortured them into giving up the identities of others like them. HOW ARE WE DOING? We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please email thoughts and suggestions to [newsletters@nytimes.com](mailto:newsletters@nytimes.com?subject=The%20Edit%20Newsletter%20Feedback). Areas of Study Illustrations by Eiko Ojala Earth Science [The Planet Can’t Stand This Presidency]( Trump is in charge at a critical moment for keeping climate change in check. We may never recover.  Gender Studies [For Women, It’s Not Just the O’Reilly Problem]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Fox debacle has opened a window into sexual abuse, at the company and in the broader workplace. Santiago Salvador Ascui On Campus [Not Leadership Material? Good. The World Needs Followers.]( By SUSAN CAIN The glorification of leadership skills, especially in college admissions, has emptied leadership of its meaning. [James B. Comey, director of the F.B.I., had an influence on the 2016 presidential race by deciding at important moments how much the public should know about the agency’s investigations.]( Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Political Science [Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics. Then He Shaped an Election.]( By MATT APUZZO, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, ADAM GOLDMAN AND ERIC LICHTBLAU As the F.B.I. investigated Hillary Clinton and the Trump campaign, James B. Comey tried to keep the bureau out of politics but plunged it into the center of a bitter election.  Technology [Uber’s C.E.O. Plays With Fire]( By MIKE ISAAC Travis Kalanick’s drive to win in life has led to a pattern of risk-taking that has at times put his ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion.  Writing & Composition [Sheryl Sandberg Finds Comfort for Herself and Offers It to Others]( By CAITLIN FLANAGAN With new perspective after her husband’s unexpected death, the author of “Lean In” addresses issues that some readers found troubling about that book. ADVERTISEMENT [Using a compass instead of a map app or a GPS device is one way to improve your sense of direction, experts say.]( Les Stone for The New York Times Adulting [To Improve Your Sense of Direction, Lose the Technology]( By CHRISTOPHER MELE For the directionally challenged, traveling can be a frustrating, time-wasting ordeal. But there are steps you can take to improve your sense of direction. Getty Images ICYMI [Why Do Allergies Cause ‘Brain Fog’?]( By KAREN WEINTRAUB No one really knows why people often report feeling “fuzzy headed” when they have allergies. Get more [NYTimes.com newsletters »]( | Get unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. [Subscribe »]( ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's Edit newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Change Your Email]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact]( | [Advertise]( Copyright 2017 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018