Judge Amit Mehta found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing search, and then allowed the company to keep doing it.
corporate power
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Shifting Anti-Monopoly Landscape
Fights over data centers and music venues show that resisting corporate power will have to go local in the age of Trump.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
In Trump’s D.C., the Swamp Runneth Over
This is by far the most corrupt administration in American history.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Judge the Actually Existing Trump Economy, Not the Theory
Equity stakes, loophole closures, and protecting domestic industries might make sense in someone else’s hands. Not from a president with no strategy or plan.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Trump Is Blinding the Government to Methane Pollution. But Others Are Still Watching.
‘If people could see this with their bare eyes, none of this would be happening.’
Posted inTAP
What State Capitalism Can Do—and What It Can’t
Today on TAP: Trump’s version is a joke. But even our version would have limited benefits.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Private Equity Ripped the Heart Out of Skateboarding
Multiple buyouts and bankruptcies have ruined iconic brands and hollowed out skateboarding culture. It’s our financialized economy in miniature.
Posted inTransportation
Transportation Department Quietly Disbands Advisory Committees
Labor groups representing railroaders worry the move could muzzle frontline worker voices and make it easier for industry to shape regulation.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
What Trump Learned From Silicon Valley
Before DOGE’s lawbreaking spree, there was ‘blitzscaling.’
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
DOJ Insider Blows the Whistle on Pay-to-Play Antitrust Corruption
Roger Alford, former number two at the Justice Department Antitrust Division, speaks out. Here’s what was important in what he said.