Online price swings look like fierce competition. In reality, they’re part of an invisible strategy that steers the entire market upward.
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Posted inMagazine
AI and the Sin of Sloth
Forget AI going haywire. The real problem is that it’s working as intended: making us lazier and less able to connect.
Posted inNewsletter
The Corporate Conspiracy of Silence on “Affordability”
Some of America’s biggest companies rely on public benefits to subsidize their employees. Why aren’t they defending their workers against cuts?
Posted inMagazine
Monopoly Men
Big Tech platforms and the Gilded Age trusts have something in common: a stifling grip on the fundamentals of commerce.
Posted inBooks
The Cory Doctorow Doctrine
Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? The critic has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.”
Posted inBooks
The Exploitative Origins of Amazon
Since the very beginning, the internet giant has grown by stealing ideas, squelching competition, and cheating on its taxes.
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2024
How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism
The collapse of the news industry is not an inevitable consequence of technology or market forces. It’s the result of policy mistakes over the past 40 years that the Biden administration is already taking measures to fix.
Posted inNovember/December 2023
Winning the Anti-monopoly Game
Despite press accounts to the contrary, the Biden administration’s revival of antitrust policy isn’t failing. It’s just getting started.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
The New Gold Rush in Advertising Is Your Shopping List
Retail media is the next big threat from monopolists as they turn data into ad dollars, and Amazon isn’t the only predator out there.
Posted inHealth Care
Amazon’s Health Care Ambitions
The colossus plans to acquire One Medical and put itself at the center of high-end health care.
