Trump’s appointee as the Board’s general counsel stops an NLRB trial likely to find the company guilty.
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Competition for Jeff Bezos’s Shabby Washington Post
Robert Allbritton, who founded and then sold Politico, is launching a kind of rival to the Post.
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After The Washington Post
What will it take to preserve a great newspaper in the nation’s capital, and to sustain independent daily journalism generally?
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Jeff Bezos’s Very Own Editorial Page
The Washington Post’s new editorialists have turned the page over to screeds defending not just laissez-faire capitalism but Bezos himself.
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Breaking: Amazon Actually Employs Its Delivery Drivers
Even as Republicans claim majority support from working-class voters, the pattern of their furloughs during the current government shutdown makes clear that this support is in no way reciprocated. While almost all the employees at the Treasury Department are still on the job (albeit working without pay), a bare 17 of the 1,270 employees in the Labor […]
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Capture the Media, Control the Culture?
Trump’s attack on Jimmy Kimmel helps spotlight an even bigger problem.
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‘We Are in a Moment of Unparalleled Peril’: An Interview With Naomi Klein
The author and academic speaks about an apocalyptic future and strategies for survival.
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The Teamsters Make Some Moves on Amazon
Today on TAP: They’re compelling the company to bargain with their warehouse workers and delivery drivers.
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Bezos Attacks Toddler Safety
Today on TAP: Amazon sues to abolish the one federal agency empowered to identify and recall highly flammable little-kid PJs.
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Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers
A study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing.