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Critic’s Notebook
Documentaries of Dissent
“No Other Land” and “Union” are films that Hollywood and corporate America don’t want you to see.
By Doreen St. Félix
Elements
The Highest Tree House in the Amazon
In 2023, conservationists and carpenters converged on Peru to build luxury accommodations in the rain-forest canopy.
By Allison Keeley
The Political Scene Podcast
Will the Government Rein in Amazon?
The Federal Trade Commission is suing the company. Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., tells David Remnick that Amazon exploits its position as a monopoly to invisibly drive up costs.
Currency
The F.T.C. Finally Takes On Amazon
The government has filed a long-awaited antitrust suit against the company, which controls a sweeping share of the U.S.’s online-shopping market. What will it accomplish?
By Sheelah Kolhatkar
Shouts & Murmurs
Welcome to BodyMind, the Meditation App for Amazon Employees
Before your mindfulness journey continues, please take a moment to absorb an ad from our sponsors.
By Grace Henes
Dispatch
Amazon’s Campaign to Derail a Second Staten Island Union Drive
Meetings with management, job improvements, and Krispy Kreme doughnuts persuaded many workers to vote no.
By E. Tammy Kim
Shouts & Murmurs
In Lieu of Flowers, Please Send Amazon Gift Cards
Remember me as I lived—gleefully scratching off redemption codes.
By Kate Hakala
Dispatch
How to Unionize at Amazon
On Staten Island, it made all the difference that the union was independent and led by workers from the warehouse, not managed by a large, outside organization.
By E. Tammy Kim
The Political Scene Podcast
Lina Khan vs. Big Tech
The new chair of the Federal Trade Commission intends to change the way we treat monopolies.
Profiles
Lina Khan’s Battle to Rein in Big Tech
As monopolies and other large companies gain increasing control of our daily lives, Khan is Joe Biden’s pick to do something about it.
By Sheelah Kolhatkar
Books
Is Amazon Changing the Novel?
In the new literary landscape, readers are customers, writers are service providers, and books are expected to offer instant gratification.
By Parul Sehgal
Annals of Communications
The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books
Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do.
By Daniel A. Gross
On and Off the Avenue
What Amazon Did to My Hair
The new Amazon Salon promises “augmented reality” and “point-and-learn technology.” But can it provide the intimacy of a good haircut?
By Anna Russell
News Desk
The Union Battle at Amazon Is Far from Over
Drives to organize steelworkers and autoworkers took decades but ultimately succeeded.
By Alec MacGillis
Annals of Populism
The Amazon Union Drive and the Changing Politics of Labor
For the moment, Marco Rubio and Stacey Abrams are on the same side.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Alabama Postcard
On the Overnight Shift with the Amazon Union Organizers
At around 4 A.M., two veteran union reps whipped votes outside the Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama, and swapped stories of past organizing efforts at Piggly Wigglys and a condom factory in Eufaula.
By Charles Bethea
U.S. Journal
The Alabama Workers Trying to Unionize an Amazon Fulfillment Center
South of Birmingham, warehouse employees are voting on whether to form a union. Their decision could have ripple effects around the country.
By Charles Bethea
U.S. Journal
A Kansas Bookshop’s Fight with Amazon Is About More Than the Price of Books
The owner of the Raven bookstore, in Lawrence, wants to tell you about all the ways that the e-commerce giant is hurting American downtowns.
By Casey Cep
A Reporter at Large
The Rise of Made-in-China Diplomacy
While political leaders trade threats, the pandemic has made Americans even more reliant on China’s manufacturers.
By Peter Hessler
Q. & A.
The Whole Foods C.E.O. John Mackey’s “Conscious Capitalism”
Mackey discusses his book “Conscious Leadership,” the labor issues that arose at Whole Foods during the pandemic, his business philosophy, and running a company as part of Amazon.
By Isaac Chotiner