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How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America

Sarah Leonard The New Republic
What this book reveals, writes reviewer Leonard, "is a country that has been falling apart for quite some time, and a company that has been willing and able to turn a failure of public policy into private power."

The Tokyo Olympics Are In Peril

Dave Zirin Edge of Sports
The masses of Tokyo want to postpone or cancel the games, but the government says it’s the IOC’s decision, not the host country’s. If the Olympics go on, it will be the ultimate negation of its alleged purpose: profit trumping the joy of sport.

‘Summer of Soul’ Review: In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns

Wesley Morris The New York Times
The movie’s got Sly and the Family Stone and B.B. King and Ray Barretto and Gladys Knight & the Pips, in top, electric form. But no jolt compares to what happens in the middle of this thing— footage from the Harlem Cultural Festival.

Amazon Transformed Seattle. Now, Its Workers Are Poised to Take It Back.

E. Tammy Kim The New York Times
A growing segment of the general population now recognizes the threat of “Amazon capitalism”: what scholars describe as reflecting “the larger global trend of the increasing influence of finance capitalism, neoliberal politics and corporate power."