The streaming giant is building a podcast empire. It’s all part of a high-stakes battle to dominate the once home-spun world of podcasting. Is power being concentrated in too few hands?
The Monopolized Economy
Monopolies Threaten Not Just Our Economy, But Our Liberty, Too.
A new book shows how the weapons that conquered the old trusts can be drawn on Big Tech today.
The FCC Has Untapped Powers. The Next Administration Needs to Use Them
It won’t take a new communications act to give any Biden nominees the power to go after telecom and media monopolies.
Milking Profits: The Dairy Monopolies That Are Hurting Farmers
Born of a noble idea, dairy cooperatives let farmers join forces to get a good price for their milk and stand up to powerful interests. Now the coops are powerful, huge, and squeezing the farmers that ostensibly own them.
Another Trump Legacy: Spreading Price Discrimination on the Internet
Consumers are already feeling the pain of the president reversing net neutrality.
Better Policy Ideas Alone Won’t Stop Monopolies
The next administration will need to change the culture within the antitrust enforcement agencies.
How Biden Can Prove He’s Serious About Busting Corporate Monopolies
It starts with the people he plans to appoint to the nation’s top antitrust enforcement agencies.
Can COVID-19 Get Congress to Finally Strengthen U.S. Antitrust Law?
A new bill from Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez strikes at the myths behind mergers.
Why Are Farmers Destroying Food While Grocery Stores Are Empty?
Turns out letting “efficient” monopolies control our food supply was a terrible idea.
How the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Legitimizes Monopoly
A federal judge has just deepened America’s corporate concentration crisis.
