On antitrust, Trump’s enforcers are challenging mergers and seeking breakups. What’s going on here?
corporate power
Posted inPolitics
Don’t Expect Corporations to Save Us From Trump
Restoration of democracy will require containing both Trumpism and corporate excess, which feed on each other.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The New Antitrust Consensus
The Trump administration is maintaining the merger guidelines that Lina Khan co-authored, and big business is angry.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Your Kink Is Health Care? Good Luck, Babe.
Fans have been pushing pop stars to take courageous political stands, but Chappell Roan’s skirmish with an obnoxious exec shows how hard it is for them to stand up even for themselves.
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Corrupted Capitalism and Dithering Democrats
America needs a true opposition party.
Posted inPolitics
Pete Hegseth’s Venmo: Defense Contractors, UnitedHealth Execs, Fox, and Friends
The VA may be the next government agency to go dark, if Pete Hegseth’s digital Rolodex is anything to go by.
Posted inWorking in America
The ‘Pro-Worker’ Portable Benefits Scam
Big Tech app companies want to evade employment law, and they’re hoping Republicans will help.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Texas Model
Wealthy oil and gas interests getting politicians to do their bidding: coming to a federal government near you.
Posted inTransportation
The ‘DEI Theory’ of Boeing’s Undoing
It’s 95 percent fake news, but the rise and fall of American aviation is also a powerful parable about the limits of what Percy Green called ‘tokenism.’
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Joe Biden’s Cautionary Farewell
He warned about the threats to American democracy. As did Eisenhower. As did Washington. And all three warned us about Elon Musk.