Amazon (company)

100 years ago, a mail-order retail giant moved swiftly into the brick-and-mortar business, changing it forever.

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

The Amazon founder was once the newspaper’s savior; now journalists are fleeing as the paper that brought down Nixon struggles under Trump’s second term.

Why Netflix looks like that.

“The Bookshop” tells the story of American bookstores in thirteen types. Its true subject is not how bookstore can survive, but how they should be.

In the online era, brick-and-mortar book retailers have been forced to redefine themselves.

Cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning that spans from Amazon to the Container Corporation of America.

In the 1920s, electricity monopolies survived an antitrust investigation because they had won over the public.

We don’t need to overanalyze it. It came down to genuine solidarity that the Amazon Labor Union organizing committee built among themselves and their co-workers.

A conversation about "Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World."

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

Jeff Bezos is stealing from a 19th-century playbook.

How every major industry and marketplace in America came to be controlled by a single, monolithic player.

Amazon will never be neighbourly.

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

The lawsuit against Controlled Digital Lending is about giving corporations—rather than readers, buyers, borrowers, or authors—control over content.

Spurred by the pandemic, new groups of workers are pushing to form unions in activism not seen since the 1930s.

From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.

The NFL's control over entertainment.

The hidden story of a 180-year-old union-busting spy agency.

A new logistics center in Revere tells a familiar story and poses the question: how inextricable is land use from the land itself?

A conversation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his new book, which investigates the co-option of identity politics and the importance of coalitional organizing. 

The diminished status of the non-white working class is not a matter of accident, but of design.

Once derided as cesspools of Reagan-era consumerist excess, the shopping mall somehow became an unlikely sort-of quasi-public space that is now disappearing.

Historian Richard White on the greed, ineptitude and economic cost behind the transcontinental railroads, and the implications for infrastructure policy today.

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

Until the Covid-19 pandemic, the catastrophe of the Spanish flu had been dropped from American memory.

Perhaps the lesson to take from this year of living online is not about making better technology. It’s about recognizing technology’s limits.

“Start-ups: they need philosophers, political theorists, historians, poets. Critics.”

It's remembered as one of the best industrial jobs a worker could get in postwar America. Less remembered is how brutal life on the factory floor was – and still is.