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Has the AI jobs bloodbath finally arrived?

Amazon and UPS have each just replaced 14,000 jobs with AI

Ross Clark

Is Jack Carr behind the Department of War?

Carr shrugs when asked if he thinks he was in any way responsible for the name change, others believe he was

Ben Clerkin

What’s happened to the trade paperback?

Down with ebooks!

Art Edwards

Is ‘eating the tariffs’ good for business?

After observing Trump’s hostility to Walmart and Amazon, Home Depot took a different approach

Richard M. Reinsch II

Court circular

Melania Trump is phoning it in

Her absence turned into a pretty lucrative enterprise

Kara Kennedy

Politics
May 6, 2025
Trump is his own biggest threat
‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is a truism for good reason
Lionel Shriver
Cockburn’s Diary
April 29, 2025
A White House Correspondents’ Dinner hangover
Plus: Eagles fly at the Rose Garden
Cockburn
Business
March 13, 2025
Don’t give Amazon license to kill James Bond
If Amazon can learn from its mistakes, our man may yet live to die another day
Madeline Grant
Economics
February 25, 2025
The economic blackout movement trying to stop capitalism in its tracks
If these companies are evil now, then they were evil five months ago when Joe Biden was president
Neal Pollack
Bad Press
February 3, 2025
The shockingly earnest anti-comeback of Tom Green
Tom Green Country is honest and goodhearted
Stephen L. Miller
Film
January 24, 2025
Why we dramatize history — and why we should stop
The melding of truth and fiction is both culturally limiting and the kind of dangerous terrain which breeds conspiracy theories and fake news
Georgia Heneage
Politics
December 20, 2024
Oligarchs board the Trump train
Jeff Bezos is just one of a number of once-hostile gazillionaires who are now lining up to honor the Donald
Freddy Gray
Science & Tech
September 10, 2024
At war with Alexa
Never ask Alexa to ‘play Liszt’; she thinks you are saying ‘playlist’
Caroline Gold
Books and Arts
May 15, 2024
This month in culture: June 2024
Our guide to what should be on your radar
The Spectator
North Korea
May 6, 2024
North Korea is using cartoons to evade sanctions
The pariah state’s animators have been working on projects for western firms including Amazon and HBO
Edward Howell