The Best of the Week’s News

• Amazon.com is the marquee monopoly of our Gilded Age, and it must be stopped, says Franklin Foer.

• Ebola is spreading in West Africa because of weak–but fixable–health systems, not because it’s an unstoppable super-bug, says humanitarian and infectious disease expert Paul Farmer.

• Charles Gilbert was a self-described “angry white man” who joined a militia to hunt “illegals,” but what he saw on the border made him question his mission.

• Airport workers paid $9 an hour to face “baptisms” in raw sewage went on strike to demand better protective equipment and higher pay.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]