Written in the stars: The Tipline for 20 July 2021

If Jeff Bezos hoped buying The Washington Post and building Amazon’s headquarters across the Potomac would earn him unlimited political goodwill, he may have miscalculated. The Amazon founder escapes the Federal Trade Commission’s authority for 11 extraterrestrial minutes today, but upon returning to gravity he will find yet another critic of his company in the office of FTC chair Lina Khan.