Today on TAP: Amazon’s surveillance of its workers
Big Tech
Posted inCabinet Watch
Merrick Garland Wants Former Facebook Lawyer to Top Antitrust Division
Susan Davies has spent much of the last decade working on behalf of major mergers and fending off antitrust enforcement.
Posted inBooks
Love, Labor, Lost
To Sarah Jaffe, the idea that you can love your job has become a trap.
Posted inBooks
Debating Antitrust Policy and Efficient Markets
An exchange stimulated by Zach Carter’s review of Barry Lynn’s ‘Liberty From All Masters’
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace
Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House.
Posted inCabinet Watch
Big Tech Critics Alarmed at Direction of Biden Antitrust Personnel
Renata Hesse, who has worked for Google and Amazon, is the leading candidate to run the Justice Department’s antitrust division.
Posted inCoronavirus
Best of 2020: David Dayen
Our executive editor with his favorite stories of the year
Posted inWorking in America
Amazon Warehouse Workers in Alabama: ‘They Work You to Death’
Employees in Bessemer, Alabama, are seeking union representation, which would make them the first unionized Amazon warehouse workers in the nation.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s Not a Big Tech Crackdown, It’s an Anti-Monopoly Revolution
Critical developments across sectors of the economy show that the movement against corporate power is winning—at last.
