When The Washington Post gutted its book section in February 2026—laying off critics and shuttering one of the last spaces of its kind in a major newspaper—Becca Rothfeld was among those pushed out. Her abrupt layoff was part of a push by owner Jeff Bezos to slash the paper’s staff by 30 percent, as he continues to scrap stories that don’t sufficiently bend to the will of the ultra-wealthy.

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