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Jeff Bezos
June 18, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Jeff Bezos Has Worst Response Ever to
Washington Post
Turmoil
The newspaper owner and Amazon founder’s reaction did not exactly inspire confidence.
June 13, 2024
Thom Hartmann
Why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Want Women to Stay Barefoot and Pregnant
The right says otherwise, and the media goes along, but history proves over and over that population decline is a good thing.
December 14, 2023
Jan Dutkiewicz
The Comforting Lie of Climate-Friendly Meat
The industry insists that meat’s problems can be solved with technical fixes. We’ve seen this before.
October 9, 2023
Timothy Noah
How Amazon Keeps Workers’ Pay Low
New evidence that when Amazon comes to town, warehouse wages go down.
March 3, 2023
Prem Thakker
Amazon Pauses Construction on “HQ2” After Virginia Promised $750 Million for It
Amazon announced it is halting work on its second headquarters in Arlington County.
July 1, 2022
Julian Epp
The Increasingly Sad Tweets of Jeff Bezos
The billionaire union-buster’s quest to ape Elon Musk has been a cringey, slow-motion train wreck.
June 7, 2022
Timothy Noah
Bezos Was Wrong, and Biden Was Right: Taxing the Wealthy Will Help Tame Inflation
A new report in The Wall Street Journal unintentionally sheds light on what economists, including Lawrence Summers, have long known: Higher taxes reduce spending.
March 4, 2022
Alex Shephard
Good Riddance to Amazon’s Terrible Bookstores
Amazon is as dominant as ever—and its retail ambitions aren’t going anywhere. But booksellers can toast the end of its disastrous foray into their turf.
February 11, 2022
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Who Said It: Jeff Bezos or Michael Scott?
See how well you know your bad bosses.
July 30, 2021
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Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Richard Branson
The Virgin magnate is battling fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the race to turn outer space into a playground for the rich.
July 21, 2021
Timothy Noah
Jeff Bezos, Space Marxist?
The Amazon founder revived the theory of surplus value.
July 9, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The Billionaire Space Race Is a Tragically Wasteful Ego Contest
Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are spending billions to go to space, using money and resources that belong to the people.
June 10, 2021
Alex Shephard
“Populist” Conservatives Rush to the Defense of Megarich Tax Dodgers
For all the talk of the GOP’s new working-class focus, it’s as eager as ever to serve the interests of plutocrats at the expense of everyone else.
May 27, 2021
Alex Shephard
Amazon Devours MGM in the Latest Merger of the Content Armageddon
The e-commerce giant covets the Hollywood studio’s sweet, sweet cache of intellectual property.
April 19, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Elon Musk Wants to Move Fast and Break Space
SpaceX’s Starlink project would add thousands of satellites to a very crowded sky.
April 2, 2021
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Sarah Leonard
How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America
The immense power of Jeff Bezos’s empire reveals a country that has been falling apart for quite some time.
March 26, 2021
Luis Feliz Leon
Amazon Union’s Vote Results Are in Soon. What Happens Next?
“It’s not just a hashtag for us. All things are definitely on the table.”
March 12, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Marco Rubio’s Lazy, Bad-Faith Effort to Weaponize Amazon Workers
When everything’s a culture war, then everything’s a culture war.
February 8, 2021
Alex Press
The Alabama Town That Could Defeat Jeff Bezos
The Amazon billionaire is trying to crush a unionization effort at a warehouse in Bessemer. But David and Goliath fights are in the town’s DNA.
February 3, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Amazon Won’t Stop Until It’s Devoured the Economy
Jeff Bezos may be stepping down as CEO, but he and the company are more powerful than ever. Can Washington stop them?
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