Critics have said for years that Facebook is a monopoly that can only be killed by federal regulation. Meanwhile, the platform bleeds users, its stock price is plummeting, and it just announced its first-ever round of layoffs.
Plus: A rebranded "Build Back Better," the two-party system creates "a disconnect between elites and non-elites," and more...
Protectionist policies stymie trade and make Americans poorer.
Once again, Washington is giving us every reason to believe it's selling favors to cronies even if it means everyone else loses.
The alcohol sector has seen more than 6,000 new entrants, but the Treasury still thinks it has an antitrust problem.
The idea would benefit central planners and grow the ranks of bureaucrats while making the poor even poorer.
Those who demand a revival of antitrust regulation to "promote competition" may not realize that they're inciting a revival of cronyism to suppress competition.
Legislators on a crusade against monopolies should tackle occupational licensing boards before they target Big Tech.
Plus: Warren versus grocery stores, Cruz versus the FBI, DOJ's new domestic terror unit, why so many people are quitting their jobs, and more...
Children are too important to be entrusted to unions or government monopolies.
Amazon promotes products that mimic its competition? Welcome to more than a century of American retail practices.
"Maybe one billionaire with a penchant for destroying democracies shouldn’t be allowed to own so much of the internet," says the representative from New York.
Friday A/V Club: Some people are against concentrated media power. Some just want to bend it to their will.
A member of the board (and a Cato Institute vice president) defends the controversial decision to kick the former president off the social media platform.
Hawley’s legislation would give officials more room to unilaterally punish business behaviors they personally don’t like.
This tech/media fight down under is not about democracy or monopolies. It’s about ad revenue.
The United States was virtually alone in keeping schools closed this fall. As a result, public education—and cities—may never look the same.
If the lawsuit were to succeed, it would hurt the people it seeks to help.
Government claims Google uses its power to force users and advertisers on board. Google says that its popularity is not anticompetitive.
Enforcement is supposed to be about protecting "consumer welfare." Overturning that goal would be bad for all of us.
This isn't a debate about consumer needs. It's all about political control.
The lawmaker says that the company's data practices violate antitrust law. They do not.
Law professors Tim Wu and Richard Epstein went head to head at a live event.
Tim Wu vs. Richard Epstein on whether antitrust laws should be applied to firms like Amazon and Facebook.
Everybody’s going after Google and Facebook. But how do you prove they’re harming consumers?
Ontario has lost millions trying to sell cannabis.
Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, and "hipster antitrust" scholars and activists say big tech companies need to be broken up. Economist Tom Hazlett says they're wrong.
Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook are all in the federal government’s crosshairs.
Being a big company is not a crime. What problem are we trying to fix?
Plus: Sen. Josh Hawley continues anti-tech crusade, Pete Buttigieg on tariffs, "toxic femininity," Gen Z panic, and more...
A love letter to getting good stuff cheaply
Nobody in the media should be supporting an elected official trying to control what speech online platforms allow.
Censorship is when government limits speech, and tech firms are not monopolies. They are successful private businesses; others are free to compete with them.
Taxpayers are increasingly on the hook for millions in overtime, pension costs.
Exclusive city-mandated monopolies lead to sky-high prices and crappy service. Who could have predicted it?
The DOJ fundamentally misunderstands the market for access and content.
City government claimed there was a need for only 125 taxi permits, and one cab company held them all.
Neither snow nor rain nor billion-dollar losses
How Virginia is screwing over bars, customers, and common sense
Fears of media 'monopolies' over the joining of two chains that have separately declared bankruptcy
A medallion in Chicago goes for a paltry $270,000 these days.
How technology is freeing both patients and physicians from the medical industrial complex
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