Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Educational posts about web development, including coding, design, and marketing. | 600–2,500 | Unclear, reportedly $200 | |
Content related to data engineering, data science, software development, and AI. | 1500+ | $900 per original article $450 per non-original article | |
Technical marketing content for software companies. | Unspecified | $300+ | |
Tips, tutorials, and resources relating to technology and design (especially web design). | Unspecified | Unspecified | |
Guides and technical articles about Linux, Socket.io, NoSQL databases, game servers, Open Change, and Web RTC. | Unspecified | Unclear, reportedly $250 per post | |
“Deep, technical content” aimed at frontend web developers. | Unspecified | Up to $350 | |
Technical articles for data scientists and machine learning engineers. | Unspecified | $300–$600 | |
Step-by-step Adobe Photoshop tutorials (as the site’s name suggests). | Unspecified | Unclear, reportedly $25–$300 | |
Articles on software development tools and practices, with a focus on “build automation, application deployment, and how to configure, integrate and develop software.” | 1,000–2,000 | $400–$500 50% bonus if article reaches 1,000 non-paid views 7 days after publishing | |
Educational content about web design (CSS, HTML, and SASS). | Unspecified | Unclear, reportedly $150–$200 | |
Content on coding, web/graphic design, and UI/UX. | Unspecified | Unclear, reportedly $50–$200 | |
Tutorials and how-tos about design (submission page singles out WordPress and Adobe Photoshop). | Flexible | Unclear, reportedly up to $150 | |
Step-by-step tutorials about web design. | Unspecified | Unclear, reportedly $100 per post | |
Programming tutorials and articles on software development in general. | Unspecified | $650 | |
Analysis relating to UX, aimed at both enthusiasts/amateurs and professionals. | 1,200-1,800 | Unclear, reportedly $50 per article | |
Blog posts about WordPress, to be written on an “ad hoc basis.” | Varies | $0.12 per word |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Travel and food articles (for the monthly in-flight magazine for Alaska Airlines). | Features: 1,200–3,000 Others: 500–800 | Unclear, reportedly: - $150 to $250 for short articles in the Journal section - $150 for “business” shorts - $500 for columns - $700 for features | |
Interviews with and personal stories about people who work as travel writers, photographers, tour operators, or other professional travelers. | Postcards: 600+ words Other sections: Unspecified | Unclear, but reported that they often pay $100–$150, and potentially up to $200 | |
Articles about tourist destinations, with “accessible” locations prioritized (i.e., not luxury destinations or resorts). | Features: 1,500–2,500 Others: 750–1,500 | Unspecified | |
Stories about food and travel. | Unspecified | Unclear, reportedly $150 per post | |
In-depth educational articles about wine (aimed at wine-savvy aficionados). | 600–1,000 | $20–50 | |
Note: This publication isn’t currently accepting applicants (as of November 2023), but will reopen in the future. Check back regularly. | Travel advice and stories, as well as educational or informational content about working, living, volunteering, and studying abroad. | 800–2,000 | Unclear, reportedly $75–$150 per piece |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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“Timely first-person pieces and personal essays, experiments and trials, and interviews and profiles” on various lifestyle topics (including health and wellness, media and entertainment, and style). | Unspecified | Include your own rate with your pitch | |
Comedic or entertaining listicles on various topics. | Unspecified, often 1,000–2,000 | $100 per article, with pay increasing to $200 after your 4th published submission | |
Listicles with at least 10 items. May be on any topic, but should teach the reader about something that isn’t widely known. | 10+ items | $100 | |
Listicles on various topics, as well as human interest stories. Prioritizes listicles that have “viral” potential. | 800–1200 words | Unclear, reportedly $50 for 600–800 word articles | |
Articles about San Francisco politics, social justice, and climate change. | Unspecified | $50 | |
News and analysis about the video gaming industry, movies, and technology in general. | Unspecified | Unspecified | |
(submit via ) | Lighthearted human interest stories. | Unspecified | Unclear, reportedly $150–200 per 500-word post |
Stories about food, technology, music, fashion, and other lifestyle topics. | Unspecified | Unspecified |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Articles about America history, early American architecture, antiques, and traditional crafts. | Stories: ~750 Features: ~2,500 | $500+ | |
Content that examines historical events from new perspectives; prioritizes articles that are “newsworthy, entertaining, quirky, surprising, and enlightening” and “look at the obvious in a non-obvious way.” | Features: 2,000 Others: 500 | Unspecified | |
Essays, fiction, poetry, and articles covering many different academic topics, including science and history. | 6,000+ | Up to $500 ($250 for online-only articles) | |
Educational content about art, antiques, and collectibles. | 200–1,200 | Up to $100 |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length | Rates |
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News, personal essays, and critical pieces about “books, technology, sports, entertainment, celebrities, politics, and fashion.” | Essays: 1,500–2,500 Features: 2,500–4,000 | Unspecified | |
Note: This publication only accepts pitches from industry experts; not suitable for beginners. | Original opinion pieces that make points about politics and policy. | 800–1,000 | $100 |
News/journalism and opinion pieces. | Unspecified | Unspecified | |
Journalistic pieces and analysis on politics, culture, business, and technology. | Unspecified | Unclear, reportedly $300 for a 1,000 to 2,000-word op-ed | |
Note: Submissions are temporarily suspended; check back later. | Articles on lifestyle, the environment, and other social issues. | Unspecified | $50 per published article, negotiable |
News analysis and “explainer” articles that break new research or current events down in an understandable way. | Unspecified | Unspecified | |
Longer articles about politics, culture, technology, science, and health. | Unspecified | Unspecified |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Accepts online and by email. Also accepts via a separate form. Note: Submissions are evaluated as part of a regular contest and may not always be paid. | Not strictly articles; accepts seasonal poetry (for greeting cards), as well as book proposals in the self-improvement, relationship, and religious niches. | Flexible | First place: $350 Second place: $200 Third place: $100 |
Short, inspiring stories and poems (to be compiled for print publication). | Under 1,200 | $250 | |
Science fiction and fantasy short stories and novellas. | Up to 25,000 | $0.8–$0.12 per word, up to $3,000 in total | |
True stories (written from a Christian perspective) about people who have “attained a goal, surmounted an obstacle or learned a helpful lesson through their faith.” | 1,500 | Undisclosed | |
Long-form pieces of all kinds (including interviews, blog posts, memoirs, essays, reviews, and investigative journalism projects) that highlight aspects of the human experience. | 2,000–6,000 | $500 per article | |
Long-form (true) human interest stories. | 2,000–7,000 | Currently $20 for the competition prize | |
Short stories in the literary fiction genre. | 3,000–8,000 | $500 and 25 contributors’ copies for First Serial North American rights | |
Mainly poetry, with a weekly “Poets Respond” contest that asks poets to write about a current event. | Unspecified | Print: $200 per poem Online: $100 per poem | |
Mainly personal writing (e.g., true stories from your life), although they accept some pieces on politics or current events. | Up to 7,000 (or up to 5 poems) | $200+, based on page length | |
Nonfiction essays, memoirs and reviews, literary fiction stories, and poems. | Critical articles: 1,200–2500 Table Talk items: 1,000 or less Stories/memoirs: 4,000 or less Poetry: 100 lines or less | $200–$400 | |
Literary writing, including essays, poems, and “literary journalism.” | Short fiction: 2,500–8,000 Nonfiction: 3,000–7,000 | Poems: $200 per poem, up to 4 poems; for a suite of 5 or more, usually $1,000 (flat rate) Short fiction: $1,000+ Other prose: $1,000+, at approx. $0.25 per word, sometimes with other expenses included (e.g., travel expenses for investigative reporting) |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Stories, poems, and articles that are appropriate for children, as well as games, activities, and recipes. | Up to 2,000 | Stories/articles: Up to $0.25 per word Poems: Up to $3.00 per line; $25.00 minimum Activities/games/recipes: $75.00 flat rate | |
Nonfiction articles in various categories. (Although the magazine also prints fiction, it’s by assignment only and they do not accept pitches or queries.) | Nonfiction: 500–1,200 Columns: Up to 600 | Nonfiction: $500–$1,200 Columns: $100–$600 |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Reviews of fiction and nonfiction (mainly for adults, with some reviews of young adult fiction). | 300+ | Unclear, reportedly $50 for a 600-word review | |
Reviews that summarize the “key ideas” from “the world’s best books, podcasts, articles.” | 2,000–4,000 | Unclear, reportedly $300 for a 2,000–4,000 word book review |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Articles about copywriting, marketing, branding, building a business, and other related topics. | 2,000+ | $300–$1,000 | |
Advice and how-tos on making money as a writer. | Unspecified | $50–$150 | |
Note: This site will also consider your pitch for other sites in their portfolio, including SelfPublishing.com and The Write Life. | Articles with advice for aspiring writers. | 800–1,200 (preferred) | $75–$150 |
Advice for writers on how to stay inspired, get your foot in the door in the publishing industry, etc. | 1,200–2,500 | $0.50/word for the first worldwide printing of your article; 25% if they reprint or repurpose your article later |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Journalistic stories about environmental problems, with priority given to issues that haven’t received much attention yet. | Usually 2,800, but up to 4,000 | Print: $0.25/word Online: $200 per story | |
Nonfiction articles on environmental and social justice issues. | Up to 4,500 for features | $1–$1.50/word | |
Educational and journalistic pieces about science, history, art, pop culture, and technology. | Unspecified | Unclear, reportedly $600 |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Reports and analysis about farming, agriculture, and “food systems,” with a focus on the US / North America. | Unspecified | $350 | |
Note: Email [email protected] with your pitch. | Informative articles and guides about saltwater fishing. | 1,800–2,400 | Online: $300 Print: $750 |
Tips and advice for experienced amateur gardeners. (This is the official publication of the American Horticultural Society.) | 1,500–2,500 | $300–$600 |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Articles on time management, marketing, and business-related topics, aimed at a primarily female audience. | Unspecified | $50–$150 | |
Note: Although this is a UK-based publication, it’s open to submissions from US writers. | True life stories, written by and for women. | Unspecified | Up to £1000 (equivalent to around $1,250) |
Note: Although this is another UK publication, they don’t list any geographical restrictions on submissions. | Articles on various lifestyle topics, including but not limited to fashion, beauty, and relationships. | Unspecified | Unspecified |
News and journalism from a feminist perspective. | Unspecified | $350–750 | |
“Visual analysis, critical theory, and close text reading” centered around social justice, politics, and art. Also accepts poetry and narrative pieces. | 3,000–4,000 | $500 | |
Personal finance advice for women. | Unspecified | Unclear, reportedly $150 | |
Articles about finance and entrepreneurship, including advice on how to succeed as a woman in business and think-pieces about financial inequality. | 350–2,000 | $150–$2,000 | |
Personal finance and business articles for women. | Unspecified | Unspecified | |
Articles on business and freelancing for women. | 1,000–3,500 | $50–$150 | |
Personal articles about relationships and related topics (love, sex, travel, mental health, and “just about anything else” that affects your relationships, according to the submission guidelines). | 500–1,200 | Unclear, reportedly $50 |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Coaching and mentorship articles about business and life. | 1,600+ | Unspecified | |
Human resources-related content, tackling topics like benefits, leadership, and talent management. | 1,500–3,500 | $20–$257.40 | |
Advice and personal essays about unemployment, job hunting, and side hustles. | 350+ | $25–$75 |
Publication | Type of articles | Article length (in words) | Rates |
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Long-form and narrative stories about architecture, design, real estate, and urban planning. | 3,000–6,000 | Unspecified | |
“Uplifting essays” by blind or visually impaired writers. | Unspecified | $100 | |
Personal stories, advice, and tips about mental health. | 550+ | $50 |
If you don’t have any luck submitting to any of the publications listed above—or if none of them interest you—then don’t give up. You can also find freelance writing work on online job boards.
For almost every industry or interest you can imagine, you’ll be able to find at least a few clients who want skilled writers to produce articles about it.
You can look into:
These websites are some of the largest online job boards. They offer gigs in other niches, not just writing (for instance, you can also use them to find proofreading and editing jobs).
There are also several websites that are specifically dedicated to writing jobs:
The downside of these websites is that they’ll generally take a commission from you. In other words, when you land work, they’ll take a cut of your profits.
This means that many experienced writers prefer to avoid them and land work elsewhere. However, in the beginning, they provide a relatively simple and convenient way of landing paid article-writing gigs.
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Whether you’re a writer looking for established outlets to spread your word or you’re a guest blogger looking to promote your brand and get traffic , you can get paid to write articles.
Many sites will pay you to contribute content , while still allowing you to have a bio and retain a link to your site – but very few sites will pay you really well .
Tip: Jeff uses BuzzSumo to generate content ideas, create high-performing content, monitor its performance, and identify influencers.
Listed below are 20 sites that will pay you at least $100 per article, upon acceptance or publication, and most will allow a bio with a link back to your site.
Here we go:
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Fiverr is a freelance marketplace where you can get paid to write articles by creating a “Gig” and becoming a seller.
A gig is purchased every 4 seconds on Fiverr, with freelancers and experts making anywhere from $5 to $15,000+ per project.
The best writers on Fiverr easily make more than $100 per article, so if that’s what you’re after, it’s a great place to start.
Niche : Mental Health/Relationships/Getting Healthier
Amount : $125+
Payment Method : Unspecified
Greatist is a blog focused on relationships, mental health, and life as it affects 20- and 30-somethings.
They are looking for articles about mental health, relationships, and getting healthier. Greatist also accepts career-related articles (especially when it comes to achieving work/life balance and being more productive), struggles with substance abuse, and social media/technology.
They expect articles to be between 1,000 – 1,500 words and pay at least $125 for each article they accept.
Niche : Anything
Amount : $250 – $1,500+
Longreads is looking for well-written, well-told, and easy to follow stories that illustrate relatable human experience that their readers can identify with.
They want blog posts, reading lists, short interviews, personal essays, memoirs, critical essays, book reviews, investigative projects, and long-form journalism.
Depending on what category your submission falls into, it can be between 800 to 6,000 words. They pay a minimum of $250 and up to $1,500+ per article.
Niche : General
Amount : $100
Payment Method : Paypal
Listverse is possibly the foremost authority when it comes to lists online, and they boast an audience of over 15 million readers a month.
They are looking for unique lists of 10 items, usually at least 1,500 words, and they pay $100 upon acceptance of your list.
Niche : Copywriting/Startups/Marketing/Freelancing
Amount : $325
Copyhackers is interested in practical content for startups, marketers, freelancers , and designers.
They are looking for articles that discuss topics that include launching and growing a business, freelancing for lifestyle/money, conversion copywriting, UX and A/B testing, product design, persuasion, and psychology, etc.
Copyhackers expect articles to be in-depth and thoroughly researched. They rarely accept articles less than 2,000 words and want articles to feature a first-person story/account.
They pay $325 per article.
Niche : Photoshop/Design
Amount : $25 – $300
They are looking for tutorials related to Photoshop, and they pay anything from $50 to $300 per accepted article depending on whether you submit a “quick tip” or a full tutorial.
Niche : Policy/Foreign Policy
Informed Comment is a leading publication about policy and foreign policy. They are looking for articles that can contribute to policy decisions and foreign policy.
Informed Comment is particularly interested in content focused on US foreign policy as well as Middle Eastern and South Asian politics. They also want content that addresses religion, human rights, women’s rights, workers’ rights, religious discrimination, energy, and climate change.
They expect pieces to be between 800 – 1,000 words and pay $100 per accepted piece.
Niche : Travel
Amount : $50 – $200
They are looking for articles about the business of getting paid to travel, whether this is through writing, photography, tours or other means.
They pay $50 – $200 per article depending on the type of article.
Niche : Feminism
Amount : $150 – $1,000
Bitch Media is looking for feminism pieces that are well-researched and backed up with evidence and statistics.
They want articles to be discussion-provoking and to make a connection between the writer’s personal experience and larger social forces; they want articles to be a feminist response to pop culture. Articles can be around 1,200 – 3,000 words.
They pay between $150 to $1,000 per article depending on what category your article falls into.
Niche : User Experience
UX Booth is an authority when it comes to User Experience, and they are looking for research-backed articles on how to create better user experience.
They prefer articles to be in the 1,200 – 1,800 words range.
Niche : General/Humor
Cracked is looking for funny and clever articles, mainly in list format, and they pay $50 – $200 per article depending on the type of article.
Niche : Web Development
Amount : $100 – $250
They are looking for articles on anything related to web development; this could be PHP, HTML5, CSS3 or anything in between.
They pay $100 for a “quick tip” tutorial and $250 for a regular tutorial.
Niche : Design/Coding/User Experience
Smashing Magazine is looking for articles related to web design, graphics design, UX design, WordPress or mobile, and they pay $50 – $200 per article.
Niche : Internet
Amount : $200
They accept articles about coding, design, content strategy , user experience and basically internet industry/business.
They prefer articles to be between 1,500 to 2,000 words and they pay $200 per article within a month of publication.
Niche : Web Design/Web Development
Amount : $150
Scotch is looking for articles about web design and development. Articles can be about React, JavaScript, Node, Laravel, Angular, Python, Vue, CSS, and other web development related topics.
They pay $150 per article.
Niche : Parenting
Amount : $35 – $350
Payment Method : Check
Metro Parent is a leading parenting publication looking for parenting articles. They pay $35 – $350 per article and they want features to be within 1,000 – 2,500 words.
Metro Parent has a preference for articles from local freelance writers in the following communities: Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne Counties.
They pay via Check upon publication of your article, within the first week of the month of publication.
Niche : Living Overseas
Amount : $250 – $400
Payment Method :
International Living is a publication focusing on living and retiring overseas, and they are looking for articles about living and retiring overseas.
They pay $250 for 840 words, and $400 for 1,400 words. They also pay $50 for one-tine use of your photographs, and they pay upon publication of your article.
Amount : $150 – $200
Sitepoint is an authority when it comes to web development, and they are looking for in-depth articles about HTML, CSS and SASS.
They pay $150 for articles and $200 for tutorials, and they often pay more for articles that are more comprehensive and that they feel will do well traffic-wise.
Niche : Linux
Digital Ocean is looking for beautifully-written tutorials about Linux and FreeBSD cloud hosting and, besides potentially gaining exposure to their millions of readers, you can also make up to $200 per article.
Your article can come in form of Updates, Simple Tutorials and In-Depth Tutorials, and you can earn $50, $100 or $200 respectively depending on what category it falls into.
Niche : Vector
Tuts+ Vector is looking for articles related to Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, CorelDRAW and other vector-related tutorials.
They pay $50 – $200 depending on the nature of your contribution.
Niche : Finance
Amount : Up to $75
The Penny Hoarder is a leading personal finance publication, and they are looking for articles mostly based on personal experience. Especially ones containing detailed numbers, strategies and advice about saving or earning money.
They prefer articles to be 700 – 900 words, and they pay up to $75 per article depending on a lot of factors; you might need to reach out to their editor first to discuss payment.
Do you love the above list? Awesome. There’s more where it came from.
As a bonus to Jeff Bullas’ readers, you can also get my report featuring a total of 50 websites that pay writers, most of which pay more than $50 per article, for free.
The report features websites in more than a dozen categories and contains all the information you need to pitch these sites and get paid to write articles for them. If you’re a writer looking to get paid for your content, this list is invaluable.
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If you’re thinking about kickstarting a career in freelance writing, you might be wondering how much freelance writers get paid per month on average. According to the data we found, the majority (42%) of writers make between $2000 and $5000 per month, with an impressive 21% making between $5000 and $10,000 per month.
How much can you expect to charge per article? The majority of pro bloggers are willing to pay $50 to $100 per article. Not too shabby!
Lots of writers prefer to work with clients long-term rather than having to go out and find new work every month. According to this data we found, almost half of the writers surveyed work with three clients at any one time.
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Are you tired of digging around Google looking for sites that pay you to write?
Or maybe you’re frustrated because job boards are not yielding the results you want?
When you’re trying to break into freelance writing and make money online, you don’t have time to wade through thousands of results looking for paid gigs in your niche.
This is why I put together the ultimate list of fantastic sites that pay you to write!
Instead of perusing job boards, why not go right to the source in your niche?
The following 50 sites that pay you to write are organized into popular niche categories so you can focus on your area of expertise.
Many of these sites pay $100 and a few pays upwards of $500-$1,000!
Not sure what your niche is? Check out my article about choosing a niche and becoming an expert freelance writer!
Get ready to make money writing with these sites that pay writers!
The family and parenting writing niche might seem over saturated with a ton of mom bloggers, but there is still room for freelance writers wanting to get paid to write about parenthood.
Let’s look at these sites that pay you to write that are just in the family and parenting writing niche.
Motherly pays for parenting stories with a fresh perspective. Pay starts after two submissions then it’s $50 per post.
A Fine Parent will pay up to $50 for practical parenting tips . They sometimes close their submissions so make sure they are open before pitching.
Filter Free Parents is always looking for humorous and edgy parenting articles.
They pay up to $50 per post.
FamilyFun is a popular magazine that features a wide variety of topics geared for families with children aged 3-12. They are looking for fun, family-tested posts that are easy-to-follow and will pay $1.25/word for an 850-3000 word post.
Her View From Home is a lifestyle blog that will accept submissions about home, family, and life. They tend to accept shorter content (600-800 words) and their pay is scaled based on pageviews.
You can earn up to $100 for 4,000 views.
Lifestyle and pop culture is a huge writing niche and blogging niche. There are tons of lifestyle bloggers and influencers out there as well as news sites that share pop culture stories. Now, as a freelance writer, it can be a struggle finding high-paying writing jobs for news stories or a day in the life content.
But these sites that pay are mid-tier writing gigs that are perfect if you want to break into lifestyle writing or news writing.
Cracked is a site that covers a ton of subjects from pop culture to movies. Check out their topics to see if they are a good fit and, if your writing is “good” (which they don’t explicitly define) then you could earn up to $100 per piece.
If you love making lists, then Listverse will pay you $100 per article ! Try to come up with unique topics that aren’t already covered on their site. The great part is that, even if your pitch is rejected, they will respond and let you know!
Reader’s Digest is an online magazine that pays $100 for personal stories . This site, which gained popularity in print, is a great way to extend your brand to millions of people!
From comics to pop culture to games, Zeal covers just about anything!
This Medium publication will pay $100 per post and up to $200 for an original comic.
Yes! That Cosmopolitan ! The online version of this magazine is one of the most popular sites that pay you to write.
They’ll accept fresh content as well as published posts and will pay $100 for an 800-word article.
Many healthcare professionals are quitting their health and medical jobs to work from home. Instead they are opting to be a health and wellness freelance writer.
To help you land a writing job quickly and start making money writing , check out these sites that pay.
Better Humans is a Medium publication that focuses on self-improvement, philosophy, thought-pieces, and news. They have a particular style guideline for formatting so make sure you check that out first.
Better Humans pays a flat rate of $500.
Vibrant Life features articles about physical health, mental clarity, and spiritual balance.
They will pay $100-$300 for articles ranging from 450 to 1000 words.
In the wellness space, Healthy Living is a very popular magazine. When it comes to submissions, they have a crazy quick turnaround time (6 days) and will pay $150 for articles about health and beauty.
This Australian-based publication has both an online and offline presence that covers a wide variety of health and wellbeing topics. You can make a submission to Wellbeing based on one of four different article types (features, travel, special reports, and real-life experiences).
They pay $150-$1700 (AU) for articles up to 2000 words.
This national magazine focuses on the latest trends in healthy eating as well as green eating, health studies, and nutrition. Eating Well will pay up to $1 per word for articles between 150 and 400 words. They prefer that you send a query by email.
Yes, the popular mindfulness app has its own blog called Orange Dot ! They like to cover topics such as mind science, mental health, and meditation studies as well as stories about how meditation has improved people’s lives. To pitch to Headspace, send an email with the subject “ADW”. They pay approximately $150-$300 depending on the content.
Finance writing jobs are in demand more than ever. With the economy being volatile due to the pandemic, now is a good time to start looking for sites that pay for finance and money content.
Money Crashers is a finance site that covers investing, credit, debt, retirement planning, mortgages, and more. They don’t publish their rates but they will pay for guest posts.
Doctor of Credit pays $50 for guest posts related to personal finances with a focus on credit score information, sign-up bonuses to banks/credit cards, and free money opportunities. They prefer posts over 600 words.
Money Pantry will pay up to $150 for articles about saving and earning money. This is a great site to get your name out there if you are a finance blogger to make money online!
The Dollar Stretcher looks for frugal how-to articles and interviews up to 800 words and pays $0.10 per word – but only for print material.
This finance site shares articles on everything related to credit cards. They also publish general finance topics like banking, fraud and making money opportunities. They pay up to $50 per post.
Business writing jobs can be a lucrative type of writing gig to have! If you have a degree in business or a related field you can write about business. Of course, you don’t have to have a degree to be a freelance writer; it just helps!
B Michelle Pippin is a site that helps women with small businesses, especially when it comes to making money. They are looking for career articles in different fields and will pay $50-$150 per piece . You do have to query them first.
This online publication is focused on feminist entrepreneurs. LiisBeth has some pretty particular guidelines, so make sure you read these and check out their past articles. The pay rate depends on the assignment.
eCommerce Insiders offers paid blogging spots for writers with eCommerce experience. Their topics cover online retail and their submission guidelines are very specific.
They pay $75-$150 for 400-600+ word submissions.
Success Magazine caters to entrepreneurs who are interested in starting their own businesses. They will accept pieces from freelance writers covering “self-made” people and personal growth/development ideas.
They pay $0.50 per word and you can submit your pitch via email.
If you want to get paid to write business articles, check out Inc . ! This popular magazine has a huge online audience and will pay for short articles between 800 and 1200 words that focus on ideas and advice for startups and small businesses.
Their pay rate varies but can go as high as $2 per word.
Freelance Mom is a site for moms, and dads, who are interested in entrepreneurship and freelancing. They love personal stories as well as posts on tools and processes. FYI – I’m not sure how much this site is updated. I did guest post years ago and I see my posts on the first page of their site, which might indicate they haven’t published fresh content in a while. But it’s worth a look!
Freelance Mom will pay up to $100 for a 900-1500 word post.
Getting writing gigs in education isn’t difficult since education is a hot topic with the pandemic. To break into the education writing niche, check out these sites that pay.
The Change Agent is a forum for adult learners and teachers who want to incorporate social change into the adult education agenda.
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Their rate is $55+ for original pieces and $27.50 for reprinted content with a word count of 1000-1500.
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They pay between $125 to $500 for feature articles.
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One way to make easy money online as a freelance writer is to write about freelance writing! The Barefoot Writer is a magazine dedicated to helping freelancers start their businesses and work from home. Depending on the content you submit, the pay can range from $100-$300.
VQR is a literary journal that focuses on excellent writing. They look for unpublished poems, short fiction (up to 8000 words), and nonfiction (up to 9000 words).
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They include richard hanania, whose pseudonymous writings for white supremacist sites were uncovered last year..
Former President Donald Trump has spent weeks distancing himself from Project 2025, a sprawling 900-plus page manifesto that seeks to create a blueprint for the next Trump presidency.
Billed as a vision built by conservatives for conservatives, the effort “dismantles the unaccountable Deep State, taking power away from Leftist elites and giving it back to the American people and duly-elected President,” according to its website.
But for months commentators and academics have been sounding the alarm on Project 2025. The effort, they say, is a deeply racist endeavor that actually is aimed at dismantling many protections and aid programs for Americans of color.
“Really, it's kind of a white supremacist manifesto,” said Michael Harriot, a writer and historian who wrote an article earlier this month titled: “I read the entire Project 2025. Here are the top 10 ways it would harm Black America.”
And a closer look at the named contributors to Project 2025 adds to the concern: A USA TODAY analysis found at least five of them have a history of racist writing or statements, or white supremacist activity.
They include Richard Hanania, who for years wrote racist essays for white supremacist publications under a pseudonym until he was unmasked by a Huffington Post investigation last year.
Failed Virginia GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart, another named contributor, has long associated with white supremacists and calls himself a protector of America’s Confederate history tasked with “taking back our heritage.”
One Project 2025 contributor wrote in his PhD dissertation that immigrants have lower IQs than white native citizens, leading to “underclass behavior.” Another dropped out of contention for a prestigious role at the Federal Reserve amid controversy over a racist joke about the Obamas.
The presence of contributors to Project 2025 who have published racist or offensive tropes comes as no surprise to academics and commentators who have been sounding the alarm on the endeavor for months.
The plan calls for the abolition of diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government. It would severely limit the mailing of abortion pills and disband the Department of Education. It would replace the Department of Homeland Security with a new, more powerful border and immigration enforcement agency to choke immigration . It would also curtail or disband programs that experts say greatly benefit communities of color, including the Food Stamp and Head Start programs.
“Project 2025 is a plan about how to regulate and control people of color, including how they organize, work, play and live,” said Arjun Sethi, a civil rights lawyer and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law. “It seeks to regulate what they do with their bodies, how they advocate for their rights, and how they build family and community — all while disregarding the historical injustices and contemporary persecution they have experienced.”
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It’s not clear how much influence the contributors USA TODAY identified had on the creation of the Project 2025 manifesto. They are listed among scores of contributors to the document, and none would agree to an interview for this story.
But even among the broader collection of think tanks, nonprofits and pundits on the author list, others have past controversies on the issue of race. Seven of the organizations on Project 2025’s Advisory Board have been designated as extremist or hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center, according to a May report from Accountable.us, a nonpartisan organization that tracks interest groups in Washington, D.C.
This proliferation of organizations and individuals with racist modus operandi is by design, not accident, Harriot said.
“One of the things that you see when you read Project 2025 is not just the racist dog whistles, but some ideas that were exactly lifted from some of the most extreme white supremacists ever,” Harriot said.
After multiple requests from USA TODAY, the Heritage Foundation declined to address questions about the Project 2025 contributors and their past statements.
Hanania is a right-wing author and pundit who has built a reputation among Republicans as an “anti-woke crusader.”
Before he became a favorite of prominent conservatives – including Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, who is now Trump’s pick for vice president – Hanania was pushing a far more extreme version of his right-wing views.
An investigation last year by the Huffington Post unmasked Hanania as having written under a pseudonym for websites connected to the “alt-right,” the white supremacist movement that flared up before and during the first Trump presidency.
In the early 2010s, writing under the pen name “Richard Hoste,” Hanania “identified himself as a ‘race realist.’” Huffington Post reported last August. “He expressed support for eugenics and the forced sterilization of ‘low IQ’ people, who he argued were most often Black. He opposed ‘miscegenation’ and ‘race-mixing.’ And once, while arguing that Black people cannot govern themselves, he cited the neo-Nazi author of ‘The Turner Diaries,’ the infamous novel that celebrates a future race war.”
Hanania acknowledged writing the posts under a pseudonym and, since then, has only partly renounced his past. Two days after the Huffington Post exposé, in a post on his website titled “Why I Used to Suck, and (Hopefully) No Longer Do,” Hanania wrote “When I was writing anonymously, there was no connection between the flesh and blood human being who would smile at a cashier or honk at someone in traffic, and the internet ‘personality’ who could just grow more rabid over time.”
Vance’s connection to Hanania was documented in a 2021 interview with conservative talk show host David Rubin — two years before Hanania began denouncing his racist past — when Vance described Hanania as a “friend” and a “really interesting thinker.”
Vance and Hanania have also interacted several times on X, formerly known as Twitter, liking and commenting on each other’s posts.
Richard Spencer, a white supremacist credited with creating the alt-right moniker, published several of Hanania’s articles on the website AlternativeRight.com, including one in which Hanania wrote “If the races are equal, why do whites always end up near the top and blacks at the bottom, everywhere and always?”
In an interview this month, Spencer told USA TODAY that while Hanania may have moderated some of his views, “I think it’s very clear that Richard is a race realist and eugenicist.” The term eugenicist refers to proponents of eugenics, the belief that the genetic quality of the human race can be improved through certain practices — practices viewed by many as scientific racism.
Hanania did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
In a 2017 speech at the “Old South Ball” in Danville, Va., Stewart, an attorney who would become the 2018 Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, told the assembled crowd he was proud to stand next to a Confederate flag:
“That flag is not about racism, folks, it’s not about hatred, it’s not about slavery, it is about our heritage,” Stewart said. At the same event, he called Virginia “the state of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.”
According to a 2018 New York Times profile of Stewart, white supremacists volunteered on the then-Senate candidate’s campaign. “Several of his aides and advisers have used racist or anti-Muslim language, or maintained links to outspoken racists like Jason Kessler ” – who helped organize the white supremacist Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia – the Times reported.
Stewart did not respond to an email seeking comment. Kessler did not respond to a phone call.
At least three contributors to Project 2025 have supported the racist “Great Replacement” theory, which contends that powerful Democrats and leftists are conspiring to change the demographics of the United States by turning a blind eye to, or even encouraging, illegal immigration.
Michael Anton, a former senior national security official in the Trump administration, wrote in a pseudonymous essay published in 2016 that “The ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle. As does, of course, the U.S. population.”
Anton has also written several essays, including one for USA TODAY, arguing to end birthright citizenship. His arguments have been widely criticized as factually incorrect and misleading. In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Tufts University politics professor Daniel Drezner called them “ very racist .”
Anton did not respond to a request for comment.
Another contributor is Stephen Moore, who in 2019 withdrew his name for consideration for the Federal Reserve Board amid scrutiny for his misogynistic and racist jokes and commentary.
Moore, who had made a joke about Trump removing the Obamas from public housing when he took office, was widely mocked when he later tried to clear up the joke in a television interview. The fallout, combined with concerns about Moore’s history of writing articles viewed as disparaging toward women, led him to withdraw his name for consideration.
Moore did not respond to a request for comment.
The 2009 PhD thesis of Project 2025 contributor Jason Richwine was titled, “ IQ and Immigration Policy .” The thesis includes statements such as: “No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.”
Richwine resigned from his position at the Heritage Foundation in 2013 amid controversy over his research. He now works at the Center For Immigration Studies. The paper, and Richwine’s defense of it, were widely decried as racist , bigoted and scientifically incorrect .
It didn’t help Richwine that his thesis was uncovered in the midst of controversy over an immigration study he co-authored that was roundly criticized by liberals and conservatives alike.
“Had he not just argued, in an extremely tendentious fashion, that Hispanic immigrants are, on the whole, parasites, he might have endured public criticism of his dissertation,” read an analysis in The Economist . “Had he not in his dissertation argued that Hispanic immigration ought to be limited on grounds of inferior Hispanic intelligence, he would have endured the firestorm over the risible Heritage immigration study.”
Richwine did not respond to a request for comment.
“The fact that they consulted individuals with such abhorrent views to develop this plan is further evidence of just how un-American these proposals are,” Tony Carrk, executive director of Accountable.us told USA TODAY. “The idea that the next conservative administration might replace 50,000 government experts with extremists like this should concern every American.”
At a campaign rally in Michigan earlier this month, Trump told the crowd that Project 2025 is “seriously extreme.”
“Some on the severe right, came up with this Project 25,” Trump said. “ I don’t even know, some of them I know who they are, but they’re very, very conservative. They’re sort of the opposite of the radical left.”
In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump had previously distanced himself from the effort.
“I have no idea who is behind it,” he wrote on July 5. “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying, and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”
But reports show at least 31 of the 38 official authors and editors of Project 2025 have a connection to the former president and GOP presidential candidate.
Vance, who Trump announced as his running mate earlier this month, also has connections to Project 2025. He wrote the foreword for a book being released later this year by Kevin Roberts, one of the manifesto's key architects.
“Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism,” Vance wrote in a review of the book, published on Amazon, which has since been removed.
Trump has pointed to his own policy manifesto – “ Agenda 47 ,” so named because the next U.S. president will be its 47th – as evidence that he doesn’t plan to use Project 2025 if he wins in November. Agenda 47 focuses on the same broad issues as Project 2025: Education, immigration and crime, and also tackles the LGBTQ+ community and welfare programs.
The plans differ in some ways. Agenda 47 doesn’t mention abortion once, for example, while abortion is a focus of Project 2025, which calls on the FDA to reverse its approval of abortion drugs and severely limit the mailing of abortion pills.
Harriot, the author who has closely studied the document, described Project 2025 as the “employee manual” for a future Trump administration. Agenda 47 is the public-facing statement of the former president’s political intentions, Harriot said, but Project 2025 is where the details are.
“There’s some cognitive dissonance,” Harriot said. “Trump doesn’t get elected by people who are just outwardly racist, and being associated with Project 2025 would dismantle his plausible deniability, because it's so blatantly racist.”
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The nose is home to a host of long-lived immune cells that stand ready to fend off viral and bacterial infections , according to the most detailed look yet at the immune players that make up the first line of defence for the lungs 1 .
The findings, published on 31 July in Nature , show that the nose and upper airway — which includes the mouth, sinuses and throat but not the windpipe — serve as key training grounds where immune cells ‘memorize’ intruding pathogens . These memories allow the cells to defend against future attacks by similar microorganisms. The data could speed up development of mucosal vaccines, administered through the nose or throat , which immunologists say could be more effective than vaccines injected into muscles.
This “exciting study” shows that an “arsenal of immune cells capable of fighting off respiratory infections” can be reliably detected in the upper airways of both young adults and older people, who typically have weaker immune responses , says Linda Wakim, an immunologist at the University of Melbourne in Australia who was not involved with the research.
Previous research on the immune system has focused on immune cells in the blood and lower airways, primarily because these regions are relatively accessible through blood draws and some types of biopsy and organ donation, says study co-author Sydney Ramirez, an infectious-disease physician and immunologist at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California.
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Then came the COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of variants, such as Omicron , that proliferate with high efficiency in the upper airway. These developments prompted Ramirez and her colleagues to find ways to sample and better understand how immune cells in the upper airways interact with pathogens and develop immune memory.
The team turned to nasopharyngeal swabs, which can reach the back of the nose and were widely used in high-income countries for SARS-CoV-2 tests. The researchers swabbed about 30 healthy adults every month for more than one year to see how their immune-cell populations changed over time. They found millions of immune cells in these samples, including cells that provide immune memory.
The researchers also learnt that they could swab hard-to-reach immune organs called the adenoids, which are tucked away at the back of the nose. These organs analyse inhaled air and contain structures called germinal centres. These structures, which are also found in other immune tissues, act as training camps where the immune agents called B cells learn to make effective antibodies.
Adenoids shrink in adulthood, yet the researchers found active germinal centres in the adenoids of study participants of all ages — findings that should be “reassuring for all of us over 20 years old”, Ramirez says. The researchers also inadvertently found evidence of these germinal centres’ effectiveness: several participants contracted COVID-19 during the study, and the researchers found that these participants’ noses hosted B cells that specialize in targeting SARS-CoV-2.
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Germinal centres are typically active only during and shortly after acute infection or immunization, yet the authors found active germinal centres even when participants didn’t report feeling sick. Using this new swabbing technique, researchers might soon understand what’s driving the centres’ activity and how SARS-CoV-2 infection shapes these immune responses, says Donna Farber, an immunologist at Columbia University in New York City, who was not involved with the study.
These findings can also offer a “very valuable” quantitative method to measure the changes in immune response after vaccination, particularly to test intranasal vaccine candidates, Farber says. But she adds that they also show how high a hill there is to climb: if the immune system is constantly active in the upper airways, pre-existing antibodies might block the protective effects of intranasal vaccines .
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The Summer Olympic Games in Paris is in full swing, and there is no shortage of inspiring stories and international controversy. The history of the games goes back around 3,000 years—held every four summers in honour of the Greek god Zeus. But modern companies can gain valuable lessons from the competition despite its ancient origins. The Paris Olympics reflects the unique hopes, dreams and challenges of the 206 territories that make up our diverse, imperfect and beautiful world.
The Olympic ceremony launched with extravagance and controversy. The ceremony featured performances from Lady Gaga, Celine Dion and a torch-bearing Snoop Dogg. But it was a scene featuring drag queens, a transgender model and a semi-naked blue man that sparked international outrage. Critics viewed the performance as a parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper”. Catholics and other religious groups called the show demeaning, disgusting and disrespectful. The Vatican said it was saddened by the Paris opening ceremony and the Organizing Committee apologised . The contrasting reaction to the opening ceremony highlights growing cultural polarization: accelerated and amplified by social media algorithms.
Most marketing goes unnoticed. If your marketing goes unseen, everything else is academic. In the words of Oscar Wilde: “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Brands are drowning in a sea of sameness. For marketing to be effective, it needs to evoke an emotional response. A positive emotion is ideal, but any emotion is better than apathy. Now, that doesn’t mean being controversial for the sake of controversy. Getting noticed can be as simple as making a stand, choosing a common enemy or telling a story. The Beijing (2008) and London (2012) Olympic opening ceremonies are still talked about today because they made people feel something. What would your brand’s opening ceremony look and feel like?
Historically, the Olympics could only be viewed through a handful of official TV broadcasters that secured the licensing rights. But in 2024, the most exciting and eccentric coverage is happening on TikTok. Fans are getting direct access to life in the Olympic Village from their favourite athletes. The spontaneous nature of the content makes it more human, relatable and engaging than the official programming from NBC Universal, BBC or Eurosport.
Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen aka Muffin Man has become one of the breakout stars of the games, not for swimming but for his obsession with chocolate muffins from the Olympic Village cafeteria. He has generated more than 100 million views documenting his love affair with the baked good. The democratization of media has a the unfolding of several unexpected subplots. From Turkey’s nonchalant marksman turned meme, Yusuf Dikec who won silver in the air pistol competition wearing casual clothing. To “Aunty” Ni , the 61-year-old grandmother who won her first game in the women’s table tennis. And Stephen Nedoroscik aka pommel horse guy who charmed the internet with his Rubik’s cube, prescription glasses and commitment to the niche apparatus. The lesson for marketers is simple, don’t just focus on tentpole moments and big celebrity names. Your message will get lost. A better strategy is to tap into niches where you can find immense passion and energy. Going niche is the best way to achieve mainstream appeal.
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The emergence of China is an untold Olympic story. In the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the USA won a whopping 44 Gold Olympic medals, in contrast to China’s 16 Gold medals. The Beijing Olympics announced China as an economic, political and sporting superpower on the international stage. China finished the Beijing 2008 Olympics ranked first with 48 gold medals. What is perhaps less documented is China’s strategic plan since the 1980s to become an Olympic heavyweight. The masterplan began with a shortlist of sports with the highest potential for a gold medal. Before expanding to medal-rich sports where China traditionally had limited representation. This was known as Project 119 —named after the number of gold medals available in the events—which included track and field, swimming and water sports. Finally, since 2008, China has targeted more internationally popular sports.
China invested in 3,000 state-run sports schools and more than 400,000 students were enrolled in sports schools in 2005 ahead of the 2008 Olympics. It combined centralized investment and grassroots development to identify, develop and train the best talent in the country. Unlike China’s long-term vision and investment, many companies operate under the tyranny of quarterly results. If China made decisions for the next Summer Olympic Games rather than future generations, its results would be vastly different.
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Looking beyond the fate of this particular prosecution, the long-term consequences of today’s decision are stark. The court effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding. This new official-acts immunity now ‘lies about like a loaded weapon’ for any president that wishes to place his own interests, his own political survival, or his own financial gain, above the interests of the nation.
Certain allegations — such as those involving Trump’s discussions with the Acting Attorney General — are readily categorized in light of the nature of the President’s official relationship to the office held by that individual. Other allegations — such as those involving Trump’s interactions with the Vice President, state officials, and certain private parties, and his comments to the general public — present more difficult questions. Although we identify several considerations pertinent to classifying those allegations and determining whether they are subject to immunity, that analysis ultimately is best left to the lower courts to perform in the first instance.
It is ultimately the government’s burden to rebut the presumption of immunity. We therefore remand to the district court to assess in the first instance, with appropriate input from the parties, whether a prosecution involving Trump’s alleged attempts to influence the vice president’s oversight of the certification proceeding in his capacity as president of the Senate would pose any dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the executive branch.
If official conduct for which the president is immune may be scrutinized to help secure his conviction, even on charges that purport to be based only on his unofficial conduct, the ‘intended effect’ of immunity would be defeated.
Yet excluding from trial any mention of the official act connected to the bribe would hamstring the prosecution. To make sense of charges alleging a quid pro quo , the jury must be allowed to hear about both the quid and the quo , even if the quo , standing alone, could not be a basis for the President's criminal liability.
He is even expected to comment on those matters of public concern that may not directly implicate the activities of the Federal Government — for instance, to comfort the Nation in the wake of an emergency or tragedy. For these reasons, most of a President’s public communications are likely to fall comfortably within the outer perimeter of his official responsibilities. There may, however, be contexts in which the President, notwithstanding the prominence of his position, speaks in an unofficial capacity — perhaps as a candidate for office or party leader. To the extent that may be the case, objective analysis of “content, form, and context” will necessarily inform the inquiry. Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U. S. 443, 453 . But “there is not always a clear line between [the President’s] personal and official affairs.” Mazars, 591 U. S., at 868. The analysis therefore must be fact specific and may prove to be challenging.
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