How power, technology, and opportunity have come together to gouge consumers
corporate power
Posted inLaw and Justice
Juries Rule
The Donald Trump verdict is a lesson that ordinary people doing their civic duty can break the cycle of elite failure to hold people accountable.
Posted inPolitics
The Three Barriers to Biden’s Re-Election
Price increases, a broader economic frustration built over decades, and an inability to articulate what’s being done about any of it
Posted inLaw and Justice
Even Scarlett Johansson Needs Protection From OpenAI
The high-profile dispute is another example of risks posed by unregulated AI development, and how little AI companies care.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Music Mafia’s Invincible ‘Poison Dwarf,’ in the Crosshairs at Last?
The DOJ says Live Nation has been colluding with its former chairman Irving Azoff to fix artist fees and ‘pimp’ Ticketmaster.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Live Nation’s Monopoly Works
A Justice Department lawsuit alleges a repeated strategy of intimidation tactics, retribution, and all-around thuggish behavior.
Posted inPolitics
Will Maryland’s Democrats Pick a Corporate Monopolist as Their Senate Candidate?
They’ll let us know by Tuesday night (unless the count takes longer).
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Entirely Wrong
FTX’s victims are getting up to 143 percent of their money back, because the system treated it like the fraud it was. As the Steward case shows, that’s not usually how bankruptcy works.
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Trump Compares Himself to Nelson Mandela
On our weekly live show, David Dayen and Hassan Kanu discuss the ongoing Trump trials.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Judge Hearing Noncompete Cases Holds Stock in Companies That Use Noncompetes
Judge J. Campbell Barker’s stock portfolio is a spreadsheet full of conflicts of interest.
