But its path to passage is muddled; states and the courts could lead the way.
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What Amazon’s Purchase of MGM Is Really About
The company wants to control pricing on everything, and funnel as many transactions to itself as possible. Here’s how the MGM deal does that.
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Congress’s Strange Bedfellows Fighting Big Tech
Coming from two different perspectives, there’s an emerging consensus on blunting the market power of digital platforms. Now the parties have to legislate.
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Worker Centers: Where Causes Cohere, and Forge Power
At the crossroads of diverse social movements and worker representation, many centers have become models of intersectionality.
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⏩ Climate, Immigration, and Monopolies: Watch Our March/April Issue Event
Our staff and contributors discuss climate change, corporate monopolies, and immigration during the COVID pandemic.
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Labor After Bessemer
To halt unions’ seemingly endless losing streak, they need a law that lets workers chart their own course.
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⏩ Alex Sammon Speaks About Amazon’s Global Dominance on The Young Turks
Staff Writer Alex Sammon speaks to Ryan Grim, elaborating on his review of Alec MacGillis’s book about Amazon.
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First 100: The Things Out of Biden’s Control
You try to set up an agenda and a boat gets stuck in the Suez Canal.
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Corporate America’s Empty Threats
Uber, Amazon, and others continually vow to leave any place where public-interest regulation might limit their profits. Don’t buy it.
