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October 9, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Dems Rally to Save Lina Khan After Mark Cuban Puts Target on Her Back
Progressive Democrats are rallying to save FTC Commissioner Lina Khan after Mark Cuban put a target on her back under a potential Kamala Harris administration.
April 30, 2024
Matt Ford
The Biden Administration’s New Pro-Worker Rule Has Powerful Enemies
The FTC is banning noncompete clauses for almost all American workers, and already corporate interests are challenging it in court.
March 8, 2024
Timothy Noah
The Stealth Budget Cuts Imperiling the Biden Antitrust Agenda
Why did Senate appropriators cut funding for the Justice Department’s antitrust division by 20 percent? You’ll have to ask Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
February 23, 2024
Timothy Noah
This Ruinous Grocery Store Merger Must Be Stopped
Food prices are sky-high and supermarkets are vanishing. If the FTC doesn’t block the corporate marriage of Albertsons and Kroger, this situation will only get worse.
October 27, 2022
Timothy Noah
Washington’s Candy Barons Are a Bunch of Corporate Ghouls
The most powerful dynasty in the nation’s capital isn’t the Kennedys, or the Bushes, or the Clintons. It’s the Mars family.
June 13, 2022
Timothy Noah
Microsoft Is Playing Nice With Unionizing Workers. Can the Tech Giant Be Trusted?
The company says it won’t interfere with union elections at Activision Blizzard, a video game company it’s acquiring. But it’s complicated.
December 10, 2021
Zephyr Teachout
Look Out, Big Tech, We’re Coming for You
Yes, the tech monopolies still have enormous power. But encouraging change is afoot. We just need a lot more of it.
September 1, 2021
Jeff Hauser
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Eleanor Eagan
Big Tech’s Attacks on Biden’s Anti-Monopoly Regulators Are a Joke
The zany plan hatched by Amazon, Facebook, and Google to undermine Lina Khan and Jonathan Kanter can’t be taken seriously.
July 16, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Who’s Afraid of Lina Khan? (All the Right People.)
The new FTC commissioner has the authority, instincts, and acumen to meaningfully rein in the power of companies like Facebook and Amazon. That’s why they hate her.
May 24, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Now Says It’s the Solution to the Crises It Created
Through ads and op-eds, Facebook is leaning into the demand for more regulation—but only on its preferred terms. Don’t trust it.
December 18, 2020
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Zephyr Teachout
A Blueprint for a Trust-Busting Biden Presidency
The nation’s overlapping economic and political crises call for a new crusade against the curse of bigness.
July 23, 2020
Ankush Khardori
There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a White-Collar Criminal
Thanks to the Trump administration’s signature mix of incompetence and corruption, America is knee-deep in fraud and corporate malfeasance.
March 26, 2018
Alex Shephard
The End of “Too Big to Regulate”
Facebook and other tech giants convinced politicians that oversight stifled innovation. That's all starting to change.
March 21, 2018
Alex Shephard
Is Facebook Going to Take Silicon Valley Down With It?
What the Cambridge Analytica scandal means for the rest of the tech industry
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