Lawmakers demanding an end to the liability shield for Big Tech should have thought about that when they enshrined it in the new version of NAFTA.
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Amazon’s Private Government
A new patent cements the company’s aims to use its power over sellers to consolidate control.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech Finds Competent Defenders Hard to Come By
You don’t want the guy who said there would be 500 total deaths from COVID-19 in the United States as your champion.
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Verizon and AT&T Partner With Pro–Police Militarization Lobbying Group
The National Sheriffs’ Association, which counts the telco giants as ‘platinum partners,’ lobbies Congress to make the Defense Department’s 1033 military equipment transfer program permanent.
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Joe Biden’s Friend From JPMorgan Chase
Peter Scher, a Biden ally tipped as a possible high-level official in his White House, lays bare the difficulties of reconciling progressive populism and corporate-friendly technocracy.
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The Post-Corona World
Prospect editors look beyond the horizon at what the aftermath of the crisis will yield.
Posted inCoronavirus
After the Crisis, Big Business Could Get Even Bigger
The pandemic and its response thus far are perfectly designed to concentrate corporate power. But we don’t have to accept that.
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The Absolute Absurdity of Blanket Corporate Immunity
With his new proposal, McConnell rides to the rescue of America’s least imperiled.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Men and Women Who Shrank the U.S. Ventilator Supply
A ‘killer acquisition’ merger in 2012 was waved through by the Federal Trade Commission, whose commissioners all went on to represent corporate America at top law firms.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Prison Telecom Giant Offers Aid to Prisoners—for a Price
The insidious games of the prison phone companies, masked by their generosity during the pandemic