The Hong Kong freedom fighter is condemned to prison darkness while the billionaire soaks in the sun and darkens The Washington Post.
Jeff Bezos
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Greenland and the Benjamins
There’s a method behind Trump’s madness and it’s colored green.
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Corporate Media? In the Trump Era, We Need Independent Media More than Ever
The Washington Monthly has been telling it like it is for 56 years, but we need your help to carry on.
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In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism
Critics warned that the Biden administration put so many conditions on the grants it offered to semiconductor manufacturers that the centerpiece of its industrial policy would fail. Those conditions turned out to be key to the program’s success.
Posted inLaw and Justice
When Billionaire Government Contractors Are Also Media Moguls
And they have deals with the president, to boot. A legal ethics scholar explores the morass.
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Trump Has Taught Us That It’s All About the Bribe and Bullet
The Colombian shakedown style of the 47th president and why we need to save ourselves.
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Three Disturbing Signs of Fourth Estate Failure
In our most venerable media institutions, oligarchy is being praised, and history is being rewritten. And it’s only Trump’s first week back in office.
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The 47th President’s First Words
Trump took office for the second time with a speech whose omissions revealed as much as what he said and may have left him stronger.
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The Exploitative Origins of Amazon
Since the very beginning, the internet giant has grown by stealing ideas, squelching competition, and cheating on its taxes.
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Amazon’s Health Care Ambitions
The colossus plans to acquire One Medical and put itself at the center of high-end health care.
