The bid to block a tie-up between two fashion conglomerates goes beyond consumer prices, and looks at market competition and labor harms.
corporate power
Posted inWorking in America
FTC to Finalize Noncompete Rule Today
The fight now shifts to the courts, where the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will likely try to strip the agency of its rulemaking authority.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Our Uniquely American Drug Shortages
More drugs are in short supply than ever before. We’ve known the reason why for a long time: monopolistic middlemen.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Justice’s Slow Prosecution of Trump Is Just the Start of Their Sluggishness
The top leadership at DOJ, including deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco, has failed to take available steps to hold white-collar criminals accountable.
Posted inTAP
Answering Musk’s and Bezos’s Attacks on Workers’ Rights
Today on TAP: With big money counting on the courts, progressives are taking the fight to the court of public opinion.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Reform Groups Home In on Lack of Corporate Prosecutions at DOJ
In particular, the corporate defense record of the acting number three at Justice, Benjamin Mizer, is put under scrutiny.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bipartisan Effort Under Way to Hobble Biden’s Antitrust Policies
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Lou Correa (D-CA) are teaming up to undercut one of the most obscure yet critical moves against corporate power.
Posted inBooks
Antitax Nation
Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Eurocrats on the Brink
In a world on fire, with corporate and anti-democratic forces rising, why are European policymakers so slow to react?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Senators’ Latest Attempt to Enrich Big Pharma Must Not Prevail
Patents are meant to encourage actual innovation, not monster corporate profits.
