The president’s handpicked prosecutors balked at an openly corrupt legal bailout for New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Yes, the Price of Eggs Matters
Consumer sentiment is falling off a cliff in the early Trump period.
Posted inTAP
The People, Yes
Today on TAP: What happens when democracy so badly fails to deliver the goods that the citizenry freely choses dictatorship?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Will Trump Continue to Defy Court Orders?
As long as nobody will stop him, why wouldn’t he?
Posted inLaw and Justice
DOJ Closes Tulsa Massacre Probe as Trump Takes Office
Investigators made solid progress in just three months, but the case is now mothballed.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Pam Bondi and the Pay-to-Play Justice System
The entire history of the attorney general nominee reveals a comfort with basing prosecutorial discretion on money, power, and proximity to the president.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Q&A: Taking On the Biggest Problems and the Biggest Companies
An exit interview with Jonathan Kanter, Biden’s head of the Justice Department Antitrust Division
Posted inEconomic Policy
When the Government Actually Governs
The Biden administration’s antitrust agencies are hitting the tape with new rules and enforcement actions.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The End and Beginning of the Lina Khan Era
The FTC chair lost her job on the same day she added another legal victory. The neo-Brandeisian efforts to convince judges to revive antitrust could have staying power.
Posted inPodcasts
Cryptocracy
Funny money moguls will have great influence in the next Trump administration.
