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  1. screen time
    How Product Recommendations Broke GoogleAnd ate the internet in the process.
    By John Herrman
  2. screen time
    What I Learned Selling a Used Pencil on TikTok ShopIt was supposed to be a test. Suddenly hundreds of people were watching. What’s going on here?
    By John Herrman
  3. screen time
    AI Is Coming for the InfluencersNow, brands are paying to advertise with AI-generated content creators. Will it work?
    By John Herrman
  4. screen time
    Shein Found Amazon’s WeaknessThe Everything Store seems to be legitimately worried about this fast-fashion upstart.
    By John Herrman
  5. screen time
    What If Amazon Delivered Everything You Order From Anywhere?The company’s massive logistics operation may soon allow it to remake yet another sector of the economy however it wants.
    By John Herrman
  6. screen time
    The Life and Death of the Amazon BrandsDozens of house brands at the world’s largest retailer are going away. Does it matter?
    By John Herrman
  7. screen time
    Is Temu the Future of Buying Things?Imagine if Amazon and TikTok had a baby.
    By John Herrman
  8. screen time
    Why Does It Feel Like Amazon Is Making Itself Worse?The “everything store” has gotten junkier and more chaotic. But, for the company, it’s only good business.
    By John Herrman
  9. screen time
    Amazon’s New Car Cam Takes Personal Surveillance on the RoadIt’s marketed as a security solution. But there will be other uses.
    By John Herrman
  10. work
    The Little-Known Policy Wreaking Havoc on Workers’ LivesOpaque corporate “points” systems penalize employees for medical emergencies and make it all but impossible for them to appeal.
    By Bryce Covert
  11. digital living
    How Serious Is Amazon About Stopping Fake Reviews?“The more money there is to be made, the more fraud we’re going to see concurrently with that growth.”
    By Matt Stieb
  12. business
    Dr. Bezos Will See You NowAmazon is jumping into the brick-and-mortar health-care business.
    By Benjamin Hart
  13. profile
    What Will Chris Smalls Do Next?He did the impossible: Unionize an Amazon warehouse. Then the hard part began.
    By Wes Enzinna
  14. organized labor
    Amazon Labor Union Loses Follow-up Election on Staten IslandWorkers at a sorting facility voted against joining the union a month after a historic win at the JFK8 warehouse.
    By Sarah Jones
  15. the group portrait
    Amazon Labor Union’s Next Big TestOrganizers are angling for a second historic victory.
    By Sarah Jones
  16. labor
    The Woke Corporation Is Dead. Good.Workers are showing that a benevolent dictator is still a dictator.
    By Sarah Jones
  17. amazon union
    Do Democrats Really Want Amazon’s Workers to Win?The party’s leadership class is hopelessly entangled with Jeff Bezos’s world-destroying retail giant.
    By Sam Adler-Bell
  18. amazon
    First Amazon Warehouse Has Unionized in Staten IslandWorkers will be represented by the independent Amazon Labor Union.
    By Sarah Jones
  19. inequality
    Will Rotterdam Make Way for Jeff Bezos, Lord of the Seas?The billionaire and his oversize sailboat may be no match for a historic Dutch bridge.
    By Sarah Jones
  20. tornadoes
    Workers Describe Being Trapped by Bosses During Deadly Tornado OutbreakNBC News reports that candlemakers were denied requests to leave ahead of a storm. Meanwhile, Amazon reconsiders its no-phone policy for warehouses.
    By Matt Stieb
  21. business
    Amazon Workers Will Get Another Shot at UnionizingThere will be another election at the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse after the company was accused of breaking the law.
    By Sarah Jones
  22. business
    Can the Teamsters Organize Amazon?The question is dividing the union as it prepares for a future without a Hoffa.
    By Sarah Jones
  23. business
    One Giant Leap for InequalityJeff Bezos’s space joyride is a spectacle of grotesque wealth.
    By Sarah Jones
  24. better know a billionaire
    12 Weird and Utterly Fascinating Facts About Jeff BezosSome things to know as Bezos steps down as Amazon CEO and heads to space, featuring Lizzo, an ill-fated iguana, and his vision for space colonization.
    By Eve Peyser
  25. juneteenth
    America’s Hollow Embrace of JuneteenthHow a commemoration of Black liberation became a favorite holiday of corporations and lawmakers.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  26. business
    Amazon Is Too Large to SustainThe company’s growth outpaces its ability to care for its workforce.
    By Sarah Jones
  27. the internet
    Internet Outage Hits Major Websites WorldwideSites including Amazon, CNN, the New York Times, Reddit, and the U.K. government went dark on Tuesday morning, and are still coming back online.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  28. business
    Even a Dystopia Would Wince at Amazon’s ‘ZenBooth’Workers need more bathroom breaks. Instead, they get a box to meditate in.
    By Sarah Jones
  29. business
    ‘It Hurts My Heart When I Have to Say, You Got to Speed Up’An Amazon dispatcher on her job surveilling your delivery driver.
    As told to Sarah Jones
  30. business
    ‘There’s a Very Human Cost to Convenience’An Amazon driver on delivering your packages, being tracked by his bosses, and having to pee in bottles.
    As told to Sarah Jones
  31. business
    America’s Failure Is Amazon’s SuccessAlec MacGillis’s Fulfillment is a portrait of trickle-down inequality.
    By Sarah Jones
  32. amazon
    Amazon Defeats Union Drive in Bessemer, Alabama VoteIt’s a setback for the labor movement but an opening salvo in a much longer fight.
    By Sarah Jones
  33. business
    Convenience Is Destroying UsAmazon hopes it’s fast enough to make us complacent.
    By Sarah Jones
  34. amazon
    Amazon Called Out for Denying Workers Are Forced to Pee in BottlesAn official Amazon account denied reports that employees urinate in bottles in order to fill quotas. They were soon forced to smell the evidence.
    By Matt Stieb
  35. maga
    Kristi Noem Angers Her Base With Transgender Sports-Ban VetoThe South Dakota governor was a MAGA favorite thanks to her fight against pandemic public-health measures. Now she’s flunked a cultural litmus test.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. technology
    Europe’s Quest to Fix the InternetThe European Union’s new plan to rein in big tech could force gargantuan companies to behave fairly and reshape the internet around the globe.
    By Vincent Bevins
  37. business
    Amazon Worker: ‘It’s Not Fair to Get Fired for Going to the Bathroom’An Amazon worker in Bessemer, Alabama, on the fight for a union.
    As told to Sarah Jones
  38. conservatism
    Rubio Endorses Labor Unions (As a Punishment for ‘Woke’ Companies)Rubio’s endorsement of the union drive at Amazon is an ultimatum to capital: If you want the GOP to help you crush labor, don’t go “woke.”
    By Eric Levitz
  39. politics
    Biden’s Pro-Union Message to Amazon Workers Is a Big DealIn an unprecedented move, the president told workers they have the right to organize.
    By Sarah Jones
  40. forest fantasy
    At Amazon’s HQ2, Pretending to Be Green Takes a Lot of EnergyAll those trees can’t cancel out the costs of growing them on a tower.
    By Audrey Wachs
  41. covid-19
    New York Takes On Amazon Over COVID Safety MeasuresIn a lawsuit, State Attorney General Letitia James alleges that the company put workers at risk of infection.
    By Sarah Jones
  42. business
    A Major Union Election Will Go Ahead at AmazonWorkers in Alabama will vote on organizing with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union beginning on Monday.
    By Sarah Jones
  43. amazon
    Jeff Bezos to Step Down As Amazon CEOAndy Jassy, who leads Amazon’s massive cloud-computing team, will take over as CEO in Q3. The world’s richest man will stay on as executive chairman.
    By Matt Stieb
  44. the national interest
    Why Do Trump Fans Think Amazon Proved Mail Ballots Are Fraudulent?Tucker Carlson is so bad at populism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  45. social media
    Amazon, Apple, and Google Cut Off Parler, Citing Failure to Moderate ExtremismThe site, which has been a haven for many on the far right, may not be long for this world in the aftermath of the Capitol riot.
    By Chas Danner
  46. monopoly
    Amazon Will Sell PrimeInsulin for Your PrimeDiabetesMonopolies helped cause a health-care crisis. Another now steps in to profit.
    By Sarah Jones
  47. antitrust
    DOJ Launches First Major Antitrust Case Against GoogleThe search giant pays mobile companies and browsers to make Google their preset search engine. The Justice Department says that’s illegal.
    By Eric Levitz
  48. the top line
    Prime Day Highlights Why October Is the New NovemberThis year, with consumers bored at home and retailers wanting to spread out the shopping crowds, Black Friday has crept forward.
    By Josh Barro
  49. pivot
    Will Tech’s Big Four Be Smart Enough to Help Break Themselves Up?Pivot’s Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss what’s next for tech’s largest firms after a House Judiciary report called for their dismantlement.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  50. the top line
    Softbank Found Another Dumb Way to InvestNaturally, the tech behemoth that lost billions on WeWork has found a new, weird thing to do with its investors’ cash.
    By Josh Barro
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