The group of new members, which includes Maxwell Frost has a text thread in which they discuss everything from news articles and policy ideas to memes and puppies. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Even as House Democrats shrink into the minority, the voices of progressive lawmakers — inspired by the so-called squad — are set to
It’s Time to Wield Antitrust Against the Publishing Industry
December 1, 2020 by
The industry’s concentration doesn’t just have economic costs. It’s a disaster for our culture and it needs to be fought.The proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster by the international media conglomerate Bertelsmann, treated as a foregone conclusion by most of the press, strikingly reveals the limitations of the “consumer welfare” theory of antitrust popularized by…