The Amazon reality show: The bidding for Amazon’s HQ2 turned America into “The Bachelor: Corporate Edition,” writes Slate columnist Henry Grabar, as the public groveling and courtship from U.S. cities now gives way to the “quieter, more private seduction of dozens of bids promising land and money to America’s 12th-largest company.” Grabar reflects on the irony of enthusing for the company that’s flattened local retail in cities nationwide:

More striking is the lack of critical voices—among U.S. …