Friday

April 2, 2021

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.

By Sarah Leonard

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Inside the Last Men’s Hotel in Chicago

For those who live there, Chicago’s Ewing Annex Hotel is a refuge, an artifact, and a last chance. The man who’s been holding it together for more than 20 years is about to retire.

By Katie Prout

Right-Wing Pundits’ Pathetic Defenses of Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law

As they circle the wagons to justify the new law, conservative commentators fail to answer one simple question: Why does it exist?

By Alex Shephard

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The Farming Lobby’s Cunning Plan to Fight Climate Change—and Regulation

The American Farm Bureau Federation has recast itself as a climate warrior, pushing for private offset markets relying on the fraught science of soil sequestration.

By Charlie Mitchell

The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing

These pubic-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.

By Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal

Repair the Crumbling Infrastructure of the American Labor Movement

Biden’s plan would allocate billions to transportation and manufacturing. But will it also do what’s necessary to build back the country’s unions?

By Timothy Noah

Oligarch of the Month: Rupert Murdoch

The media mogul has been encouraging people to get the Covid vaccine—even as his networks push skepticism about its efficacy.

By Alex Shephard

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