antitrust 
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SOURCE: Democracy
9/15/2022
Economics is Power, not Math: Why the Dems Should Attack Monopoly
by Barry C. Lynn
Until the Reagan Revolution, American politics reflected the understanding that concentrated economic power was corrosive to democracy. Today, the Democrats need to revive that story as a political argument.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
1/10/2022
Federal Lawsuit Charges Ivy League, other Elite Universities with Collusion on Admissions, Tuition
"According to a lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court late Sunday by law firms representing five former students who attended some of the schools, the universities engaged in price fixing and unfairly limited aid by using a shared methodology to calculate applicants’ financial need."
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/13/2021
America’s 40-Year Experiment With Big Business Is Over
by Nelson Lichtenstein
Biden's executive order returns to a longstanding American view of concentrated economic power as a threat to democracy.
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SOURCE: Wired
5/2/2021
Josh Hawley’s Virtual Reality
Writer Gilad Edelman says that Josh Hawley's book twists the history of antitrust policy to fit the needs of today's Republican culture war against the social media giants.
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8/23/2020
Monopoly in the 20th Century: Roosevelt Warns of Concentrated Wealth and Fascism (Excerpt)
by Thom Hartmann
Franklin Roosevelt recognized that the concentrated economic power of big businesses was a threat to democratic society and a step on the road to fascism, and wasn't afraid to say it.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/10/2020
Amazon Is a Private Government. Congress Needs to Step Up.
by Stacy Mitchell
A handful of tech companies constitute a private government with potentially dangerous control over information and commerce. Congress should boost antitrust law to reduce this power.
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SOURCE: KIRO
4/28/2020
Internet Access Proves Necessary to ‘Participate in Life’ During Pandemic
Harvard Law Professor Susan Crawford argues that the regulatory system for electric utilities established by Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s is a model for necessary reforms to the telecommunicatins industry to ensure all Americans can access the internet.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/18/2020
As Amazon Rises, So Does the Opposition
Ms. Mitchell is 47, a historian by training. But her real role is the strategist of the demise of Amazon as we know it.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/16/2020
Don’t Feel Sorry for the Airlines
by Tim Wu
Before providing airlines any assistance, we must demand that they change how they treat their customers and employees.
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