A tattered entertainment industry is hoping to solve its problems with mergers. Will Biden’s aggressive antitrust enforcers force a Plan B?
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Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Year in Review: The Visuals
Our art director takes a look at his favorite illustrations, pages, and projects from the last year.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Best of 2023: Luke Goldstein
Our writing fellow offers his favorite stories of the year.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Building a Giant
Mapping UnitedHealth’s consumption of our health care system—from the ’70s to today
Posted inEconomic Policy
New Merger Guidelines Quietly Reshape the Business Landscape
It just got much harder for companies to buy up their competitors.
Posted inTransportation
The Second Wave of Airline Concentration
After the biggest companies used mergers a decade ago to dominate, now the lower-tier competitors are getting into the game. But they face headwinds from federal regulators.
Posted inTAP
Jury Finds That Google Is a Monopolist
Today on TAP: Disgruntled ex-FTC employees dishing to mainstream media aside, the public understands the rampant use of Big Tech monopoly power.
Posted inTAP
The Farce of Big-Time College Sports
Today on TAP: One more face of the creeping commercialism of higher education
Posted inPolitics
Sen. Chris Murphy: ‘This Party Has Not Made a Firm Break From Neoliberalism’
Connecticut’s junior senator launches a new interview series focused on monopoly power, part of his quest to understand American unhappiness.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Euthanize This (Merger)
The merger of Cigna and Humana, America’s fifth- and sixth-largest for-profit health insurers, would create a monster middleman to ‘compete’ with the undisputed giant, UnitedHealth.