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    What Amazon HQ2 tells us about America's great divide | Robert Reich

    Tomorrow’s technologies are flocking to hubs of innovation on the east and west coasts, while everyone else is left being left behind
    by Robert Reich Nov 14, 2018 3 minutes
    Long Island City, across the East River from Manhattan, which has been named as a site of Amazon’s second headquarters, offers clusters of talented people generating ideas. Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images

    Amazon has decided that its much-vaunted “second headquarters” will be split between Long Island City in Queens, and Crystal City, across the Potomac from Washington DC.

    Amazon’s decision coincides with America’s political tumult. Its main headquarters is in Seattle, one of the most liberal cities in the most liberal of states. Its picks – New York and metropolitan Washington – are liberal, too.

    Amazon could easily have decided to locate its second headquarters in, say, Indianapolis, Indiana. After all,

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