Trump's FTC Chair Is Continuing To Push Lina Khan's Antitrust Ideology
The Federal Trade Commission was established to protect consumers. Under Biden and Trump, its focus has shifted.
The Federal Trade Commission was established to protect consumers. Under Biden and Trump, its focus has shifted.
"It's hard to see how completely ripping [the system] apart will be helpful to consumers," warns one economist.
Forcing the sale of Chrome or banning default agreements wouldn’t foster competition—it would hobble innovation, hurt smaller players, and leave users with worse products.
The last Pope Leo denounced state seizures of private property as "emphatically unjust."
A recent policy report points to much-needed market-based reforms.
Conway, New Hampshire's attempt to force a local bakery to take down the mural "does not withstand any level of constitutional scrutiny," a judge ruled this week.
The Court has been punting for months on whether it will take up a legal challenge brought by Los Angeles landlords alleging their city's COVID-era eviction ban was a physical taking.
Make dishwashers great again.
All to shovel more money at wasteful and ineffective programs.
During one week in February, arrests of homeless people accounted for 66 percent of all arrests in Miami Beach.
Plus: The White House proposes stiff funding cuts at HUD, Baltimore proposes "missing middle" reforms, and Gov. Gavin Newsom urges local governments to clear encampments.
Plus: Yetis, The Seat, and a political letter that will make your eyes roll.
Two business owners say the city of Perth Amboy is using exceedingly flimsy blight allegations to take, and potentially demolish, their property.
The site of George Washington's famed winter encampment might not have existed without colonial-era iron regulations.
The bill "raises the risk of malware," warns one tech expert.
Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador wants conservatives to sacrifice Americans’ economic well-being to break up big businesses.
Progressives used to believe in building more stuff. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson want to do that again.
The death of a onetime powerhouse carries a lesson for antitrust enforcers—if they’ll listen.
Plus: Arkansas legalizes ADUs, activists sue to stop missing middle housing, and Trump's housing plans for federal lands
A new executive order would keep the Corporation for Public Broadcasting alive while telling it to cut off the two biggest public broadcasting networks. Get ready for a legal fight.
The California Environmental Quality Act has created a regulatory nightmare.
The Justice Department is pursuing an antitrust policy inspired by Oren Cass and members of the New Right.
Former Rep. Ron Paul argues that slashing red tape will do more to bring down home prices than pressuring the central bank to cut interest rates.
John Arnold argues that private markets solve problems better than government or philanthropy, and that real reform comes from decentralization, incentives, and evidence—not top-down control.
So much for unleashing American energy.
Plus: California zoning bill survives powerful lawmaker's economic illiteracy, Montana legislators pass simple, sweeping, supply-side housing reforms, and Washington passes rent control.
The penalty amounts to a "multibillion-dollar tariff," a Meta spokesperson says.
When compared to the most likely alternatives, DOGE has cut as much government as one could hope for.
Democrats would have a stronger rebuke to Trumpism if civic service in blue states were the national model rather than a laughingstock.
Google has lost its second major antitrust case against the Department of Justice, threatening the tech giant's free-to-consumer business model.
Longtime surgeon and Cato Institute fellow Jeffrey Singer argues that government overreach in health care undermines patient autonomy.
Sunbeams and breezes are too fickle. The most climate-friendly power source is using magic rocks to boil water.
Bills designed to allow more starter homes and apartments near transit face an uncertain future in the state Senate's housing committee.
A new book argues that late-20th-century lowbrow culture created the modern world.
Goldman Sachs estimates that the tariffs will create about 100,000 manufacturing jobs while destroying 500,000 others. In Pennsylvania, it's already starting.
Mark Zuckerberg's donations haven't stopped the Federal Trade Commission from going after his company.
The budget for the project has quadrupled, and private property owners have opposed the use of eminent domain along the proposed 240-mile route.
Using the military to wage the drug war in Mexico raises practical and constitutional issues.
The lawsuit will hopefully make stringent regulations for nuclear power a relic of the past.
Shahzaad Ausman has had to sue the county to confirm that he can continue to live in his own home.
The Atlantic's Derek Thompson urges Democrats to embrace more libertarian, pro-growth policies in his new book.
A simple and quite symbolic presidential decree that symbolizes quite a bit, but accomplishes very little.
From Obama, to Trump, to Biden, to Trump again, the definition of showerhead keeps changing.
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