“When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated,” The New York Times Sears and other legacy retail businesses are in deep financial trouble these days, while internet sales behemoth Amazon continues to rise amid a reputation of innovation and prosperity. But at their respective heydays, Sears did far more to benefit its workers than Amazon. In the 1950s, workers owned a quarter of Sears. At Amazon, the CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, owns 16 percent of the company and is the richest man on the planet. — Walker Orenstein, environment and workforce reporter “‘Britney Spears wanted to be a star’: An oral history of ‘… Baby One More Time,’” Entertainment Weekly “Baby One More Time” is older than Britney Spears was when she donned a school-girl getup from Kmart for the music video that would launch her career. Twenty years on, Entertainment Weekly looks back at the song’s origins, and at Spears’ surprisingly good early instincts about what would make her now ...
