How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union
This episode contains strong language.
A year and a half ago, the Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Karen Weise began examining labor practices at Amazon.
In the process, they met Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer, two Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York, who had embarked on an improbable …
Amazon and the Labor Shortage
Amazon is constantly hiring. Data has shown that the company has had a turnover rate of about 150 percent a year.
For the founder, Jeff Bezos, worker retention was not important, and the company built systems that didn’t require skilled workers or extensive training — it could hire and lose people …
Slate Money - Hipster Antitrust
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss Lina Khan and tech antitrust, Anna Wiener’s New Yorker piece on Silicon Valley, and the New York Times investigation into working at Amazon.
In the Plus segment: MacKenzie Scott gives again.
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When A.I. Comes to Town: The Backlash Over Data Centers
Tech companies are racing to build thousands of huge data centers to power the artificial intelligence revolution. To find the land they need, they are barreling into rural communities across the United States with the promise of good jobs. But not everyone is buying that pitch.Karen Weise, a techn…
Amazon's Robot Takeover
Over the past two decades, no company has done more to shape the American workplace than Amazon. In its ascent to become the nation’s second-largest employer, it has developed an aggressive corporate culture and pioneered using technology to hire, monitor and manage workers.Now, interviews and a ca…
Amazon’s Most Beloved Features May Turn Out to Be Illegal
The U.S. government has filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, pointing to a set of familiar features that have made, the internet retail giant so beloved by consumers.Karen Weise, a technology correspondent for The Times, explains why those features may actually be illegal.Guest: Karen…
The Data Center Gold Rush and the Communities Standing in the Way
There are 48 data centers currently in operation across Utah. Few of them received public attention as they went through the public planning process. But the data centers currently in development are being put under the public’s microscope. Deseret News reporter Art Raymond and New York Times repor…
After rocket explosion, Kent's Blue Origin falls further behind in the space race
When Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded last week, it affected NASA’s space aspirations, and private companies like Amazon.
The New York Times’ Karen Weise will tell us about the fallout from the Kent-based company’s launchpad disaster.
Read Karen’s reporting here.
And make sure to join us …
Coalinga High School Baccalaureate: Truth for All-Time: Why God's Truth Matters (2 Peter 1:16-21)
Coalinga High School Baccalaureate Address
Preached June 1, in the year of our Lord 2026
Truth for All-Time: Why God’s Truth Matters
2 Peter 1:16-21
Introduction: We are living in perilous times. This isn’t an understatement. We also live in an age of mass information. In the past, people would …
New Poll Shows Democrats Have Midterms Momentum, and Trump Calls A.I. Fears ‘a Hoax’
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Trump’s Effort to Assert Control Over Elections Continues, Despite Court Loss, by Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Democrats Gain Edge as Trump Drags Down G.O.P., New Poll Finds, by Shane Goldmacher, Ruth Igielnik and Sophia June
President Trump Is on t…
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