Full disclosure: Brad Stone, author of the definitive books on Jeff Bezos company (
The Everything Store, 2013, and its just-published sequel
Amazon Unbound), is an old friend. When Bezos was just a smart, driven business nerd who sold books online, Brad and I would interview him for
Newsweek and
Time respectively. Fuller disclosure: I m the guy who nominated the bookselling nerd for
Time Person of the Year. Fullest disclosure: I own an anti-Amazon T-shirt made by the HQ2 protestors in Queens ( resist, it says above a smile logo), and also own an Amazon Echo, Kindle, and Prime account.Â
Our relationship with Amazon is as complicated as the company itself. On the one hand, Bezos is an innovator, a genius, a customer-focused obsessive; on the other, anti-union, proto-monopolist, pitiless kingpin who had to be dragged into philanthropy. But in the last four years, the hero side has receded and the villain come to the fore. So it s a comfort to read
Maybe we would. Maybe we would.
But let s talk about the Republicans, a lot, I guess, to examine this week, Jonathan. As expected, the House Republicans did vote to evict Liz Cheney from her leadership role. They replaced her with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who is a loyal supporter of President Trump.
Do we now know what the Republican Party stands for?
Jonathan Capehart:
Judy, we do not.
We do not know what the Republican Party stands for. And I m comfortable saying that, because excuse me the Republican Party that I learned about growing up, the party of smaller government, law and order, reverence for the Constitution, low taxes or no taxes, that party is gone.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 Malaysians should do their part to counter Israeli’s manipulative propaganda online, Council of Malaysian Women Political Leaders (Comwel) president and founder Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin said. She said Malaysians should not let up their condemnation of the.
By Vivian KaneMay 13th, 2021, 5:53 pm
According to two
Washington Post reporters who witnessed the event, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene best known for her white supremacy, transphobia, Islamaphobia, her support for QAnon, and her intense love of guns ”aggressively confronted” Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside the House chamber Wednesday.
According to those reporters, Greene shouted at her colleague twice, yelling, “Hey Alexandria!” Ocasio-Cortez didn’t stop walking, so Greene “picked up her pace and began shouting at her and asking why she supports antifa” and yelled that Ocasio-Cortez was “failing to defend her ‘radical socialist’ beliefs by declining to publicly debate the freshman from Georgia.”