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Bezos pitched in by creating an online marketplace of cheap consumer goods that people can get delivered to their homes in two days flat.
Today's antitrust activists forget that big companies with significant market share come and go.
A simplified tax code is the answer, not giving the IRS more funding.
After returning from space yesterday, Jeff Bezos thanked Amazon customers who made his fortune possible.
May our new space billionaires produce spinoff technologies for the rest of us to enjoy in due time!
Amazon's CEO stepped down this week after 27 years of extreme customer focus.
After Chinese authorities conducted newsroom raids and arrested top editors, pro-democracy publication Apple Daily realized it could no longer safely operate.
Border restrictions and testing requirements make vacation a bit less relaxing and a lot more expensive.
For a zine about "the sick and twisted hobbies of rich people throughout history," little time is spent actually indicting the aristocracy.
Yes, that very same Randi Weingarten, the teachers union president who has fought to keep children out of the classroom for the last year.
Theatrical safety checks don't keep people safe—vaccines do.
There's a good chance they haven't been preventing the spread of COVID, and they might even be counterproductive.
Silence isn't violence, and recusing your company from political discourse, as Basecamp and Coinbase have done, is a perfectly valid line to draw.
2020 was nobody’s idea of a good year, but the ability to smoke pot in my own backyard, mostly free from fear of arrest, majorly redeemed it.
The nation's brief respite from military rule came to an abrupt end on February 1.
The government tried to stabilize the nation's food supply 80 years ago. Its efforts backfired.
The book, which garnered a $4 million deal and touted Cuomo's purported pandemic-handling competence, may have gotten the governor into hot water.
He should've focused on containing nursing home COVID spread, not getting VIP treatment for penthouse-dwelling Manhattanites (and his own family members).
How New York's governor botched early-pandemic guidance to residential care facilities for intellectually disabled adults
Instead of blocking food imports during a pandemic in which supply chains are strained, the FDA should allow consumers to choose food that will fill them up.
The governors of New York and California have botched major aspects of the pandemic response.
Preserving the country's greatest restaurant scene in the midst of a pandemic feels like an afterthought.
A person you know might be having an online conversation without a transcriptionist and a fact-checker right now, and we have to stop it.
Why didn't Cuomo and De Blasio build a decent, user-friendly website?
Some doable libertarian ideas for the new president
At a time when supply is constrained and time is of the essence, medical providers in many states are throwing precious doses away.
If the aim is to reduce COVID-19 deaths, Oregon's plan is a failure.
President Biden should also provide refuge for democracy lovers who want to escape authoritarian Chinese rule.
More than 4,100 people died of COVID-19 yesterday across the country, but some New York medical providers are dumping vaccines instead of putting them in people's arms.
China accused the activists and former legislators of "subverting state power."
Reason's writers and editors share their suggestions for what you should be buying your friends and family this year.
For too long, our northern neighbors have depended on plasma imported from the U.S. to meet demand. With the passage of new legislation in Alberta, this may change.
As the coronavirus reshapes daily life, two Reason editors crisscross the country and describe what they’ve seen.
A look at how Hollywood functioned prior to contracts detailing how much breast or cheek an actress must show to earn her paycheck
A survey of presidential preferences and regrets
Regina Ip spins a fantasy of a just government restoring order to Hong Kong.
Imagine skies filled with drones carrying kidneys and livers, on their way to save the lives of people awaiting transplants. The future is here!
Occultists, social justice warriors, and techno-utopians may not look like the Christians of yore, but they're more religious than they realize.
Mears' effort to take readers behind the velvet rope and explore the world of clubbing proves both fun and sobering.
"In China, expressing beliefs or ideas not approved by the CCP—religion, democracy, human rights—can lead to prison."
"Academic staff...are no longer free to make controversial statements to the general public about politically or socially controversial matters," one of them writes.
The show smartly grasps that there will always be competing visions for the future of feminism.
Thirty-one years ago, an unidentified man held off Chinese military tanks in Tiananmen Square. Protesters facing down state violence today have big shoes to fill.
New legislation proposed in Beijing signals the likely end of the "one country, two systems" policy that has allowed Hong Kong to flourish.
"You can't exactly eat with a mask on, and I have a small space where people would be in close proximity to each other."
Is tahini salsa verde an insidious form of cultural appropriation or two immigrants from Oaxaca riffing on food traditions they love?