What Is Life Like For an Amazon Worker?

Hamilton Nolan · 07/29/13 11:48AM

One of these days— maybe sooner, maybe later, but definitely one of these days—Amazon will become the new king of retail consumerism in America. We know what it's like working for Wal-Mart and Target. But what is life like for the faceless workers that make Amazon go?

Oprah Winfrey Freaks Out Over Hugh Jackman's Abs, In General

Rich Juzwiak · 07/29/13 11:37AM

Oprah Winfrey massaged the prostate ego of Hugh Jackman on last night's episode of Oprah's Next Chapter. Did you ever know that he's her hero? He's one of her all-time favorite people. Watching him live his life they way he does makes her want to live hers on a higher vibration. Also, she loves his abs so much so that discussions of them framed their sit-down.

Rich Juzwiak · 07/29/13 09:01AM

Lady Gaga on her upcoming single, "Applause": "...What I’m saying in the song essentially is that I live for the applause. I live for the way you cheer and scream for me. Give me that thing that I love. Put your hands up, make them touch." I never would have guessed.

Gerrymandering Is Eating Democracy

Hamilton Nolan · 07/29/13 08:39AM

It's strange that national political races grow ever more expensive, and our national political discussion grows ever more atomized and partisan, at the same time that Congressional elections are less competitive than ever, by design. Why are we all yelling at each other when we should be yelling at gerrymandering?

Hamilton Nolan · 07/29/13 07:48AM

Publicis and Omnicom, two staggeringly huge conglomerates of advertising and PR agencies, are combining into one even more staggeringly huge conglomerate, as we march towards a bright future in which one ad company sells all ads to one media company, which controls all entertainment.

Max Rivlin-Nadler · 07/28/13 10:05PM

After having bananas thrown at her during a political rally, Cécile Kyenge, Italy's first black minister, told reporters that she would continue doing her job and that protesters should stop "wasting food."