Hospitals were never meant to be operated like businesses. To improve our health care system, hospital concentration must be regulated.
The Monopolized Economy
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
Hey, Pete Buttigieg, Use Your Power to Get Us Better Airline Service
Fare hikes, canceled flights, endless delays—flying is a nightmare, but the transportation secretary has powers to make things better if only he’d use them.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
Meet the Manhattan Mom Running Her Own Formula Bank
Until the government breaks up concentration in the formula industry, parents like Hannah Kroll have to fend for themselves.
Posted inMagazine
Jeff Bezos’s Next Monopoly: The Press
With his vast investment in The Washington Post’s digital publishing technology, the Amazon founder could soon control the backbone of most large American newspapers.
Posted inBooks
Cognitive Dissonance in America’s Dairy Land
Wisconsin farmers admire and depend on their undocumented Mexican laborers—and still vote for Trump.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
Memo to Democrats: Bust the Credit Card Cartel
A midterm election plan for Democrats to win the gratitude of millions of exploited merchants.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
“We’re Living in an Era of Extraordinary Corporate Power”
Katie Curran O’Malley is political royalty in Maryland, and she’s running for state attorney general in large part to rein in monopolies. A conversation.
Posted inApril/May/June 2022
Laboratories of Anti-Monopoly
States are on the front line of the fight against corporate consolidation.
Posted inPolitics
From Russia, With Monopolies
Moscow’s control of supply chains could stymie America’s efforts to punish Putin for his war on Ukraine.
