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April 29, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Amazon Caves on Displaying Tariff Prices After White House Loses It
Amazon was reportedly planning to display how much Donald Trump’s tariffs would increase prices.
November 13, 2018
Jeet Heer
Amazon announces its new headquarters, which will get nearly $3 billion in public money. Critics are unimpressed.
July 26, 2018
Jeet Heer
Amazon’s facial recognition technology falsely identifies 28 members of congress as criminals.
February 3, 2016
Sasha Belenky
Amazon’s retail plans are bigger than a chain of bookstores.
November 17, 2011
Kevin Carey
A Much-Needed Challenge to Low-Quality Universities
October 19, 2011
Ruth Franklin
Why Writers Should Embrace Amazon’s Takeover of the Publishing Industry
March 28, 2011
Alexander C. Hart
Are We Running Out of Sudoku?
July 28, 2010
Ruth Franklin
The READ: In Defense of Amazon

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