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Vermont senator Bernie Sanders continued his feud with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos by taking aim at the company’s business practices this week. Sanders introduced a bill called Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act, a reference to Amazon’s CEO. The bill is intended to force companies with 500 or more workers to pay […]

PEN America, a literary activism group comprised of thousands of writers, has taken the step of suing a sitting President for his attacks on the press. Tuesday, the organization filed a suit in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that Trump “violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution” via what PEN refers […]

On November 1st, Amazon will begin paying a $15 minimum wage to all part-time and full-time US employees. This change will apply to all Amazon subsidiaries, such as Whole Foods.

In a world of growing corporate power and artificial intelligence, technology giants such as Amazon are collaborating with law enforcement and the military to increasing stakes.

The video game Watchdogs 2 opens with you having to hack into a server and wipe your criminal record clean so the police can’t use a predictive algorithm that predicts future crimes based on past actions. The algorithm leans heavily on using facial recognition databases to keep tabs on citizens. Of note, the protagonist is Black, […]

The Fraternal Order of Police is the largest police union in the United States. As a result, when its president, Chuck Canterbury, writes an open letter to one of the biggest retailers in the world, it’s going to have results. Knowing this, Canterbury wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, urging him to remove any trace […]