MAGA is wooing Platner's male fans now Manosphere figures are using anger over the Maine race to coax young voters back to Trump Salon · Jul 15
Paramount's Acquisition of Warner Bros. Wouldn't Be the End of Hollywood or Press Freedom While there are legitimate antitrust concerns regarding the merger, doomsday predictions are unwarranted. Reason · Apr 14
Is It Time To Break Up Big Tech? Matt Stoller and Geoffrey A. Manne debate antitrust law and Big Tech. Reason · Dec 19, 2025
Netflix-Warner Mega Merger A 'Disaster For America,' Says This Anti-Monopolist: Likely To Face Significant 'Political And Antitrust Hurdles' Streaming giant Netflix Inc.’s (NASDAQ:NFLX) $82.7 billion merger with mass media conglomerate Warner Bros Discovery Inc. (NASDAQ:WBD) is drawing sharp criticism from antitrust advocates, such as Matt Stoller of the American Economic Liberties Project, a non-profit founded to combat monopolist corporations. Benzinga · Dec 8, 2025
The Fastest Tariff U-Turn in History: How Britain Made Trump Blink on Pharmaceuticals Fastest tariff reversal ever: Britain wins zero-tariff pharma deal as Trump backs down—NHS faces 25% higher drug costs. See effects on patients and jobs. International Business Times UK · Dec 2, 2025
HPE got tangled up in MAGA conspiracy theories, and now its $14 billion merger with Juniper could be thrown out The feeling was that a combined HPE-Juniper offering would act as a “bulwark” against Huawei in markets where the Chinese company might otherwise be more dominant. Fortune · Aug 7, 2025
Trump Is Coming for Tech Companies It looks like we can expect the antitrust assaults to continue. Reason · Dec 9, 2024
Here’s how much landlords’ software is to blame for your high rents, according to one researcher “About a quarter of rental inflation is potentially due to this price fixing conspiracy orchestrated by RealPage and some of the big corporate landlords,” Matt Stoller, the director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project, told Fortune. Fortune · Oct 8, 2024
Apple’s new AirPods will make America hear again, but no thanks to the regulator The tech firm’s federal approval to turn its earbuds into hearing aids is one in the eye for the monopolistic US healthcare agency The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2024
From the left and the right, these two thinkers are upending Washington’s neoliberal consensus - Roll Call Progressive Matt Stoller and conservative Oren Cass are unlikely allies on a lot of things — and they believe the times are on their side. Roll Call · Apr 3, 2024
How did Netflix 'win the streaming wars' while being criticized for becoming 'unwatchable?' It could all be explained by the concept of 'platform decay' Netflix has been simultaneously crowned the winner of the streaming wars and a target of criticism for having mediocre content. Fortune · Jan 7, 2024
Big Tech Stumbles In Google's Epic Defeat Google' stinging defeat against Fortnite-maker Epic Games in a California courtroom could be an important blow against big tech's decades of supremacy on antitrust matters in the United States. International Business Times · Dec 13, 2023
Google’s Epic loss has implications for the whole tech world The verdict represents the first major antitrust defeat for a Big Tech company and is likely to have a broader impact across Silicon Valley. Fortune · Dec 12, 2023
Amazon hit with sweeping antitrust suit FTC chair accuses Amazon of using "a set of punitive and coercive tactics to unlawfully maintain its monopolies" Salon · Sep 26, 2023
Salon · Aug 1, 2023 Trolls panic as Twitter collapses Elon Musk's business model depends on "triggering" liberals — but he's now running out of progressives to bait
Salon · Mar 22, 2023 Ron DeSantis caught in leaked video DeSantis spoke to the Teneo Network, a secretive well-funded group run by SCOTUS takeover architect Leonard Leo
The Independent UK · Jan 12, 2023 Southwest under fire for promoting executives amid flight meltdown that left thousands stranded Company had a nightmarish holiday season with Biden administration promising to hold it accountable
Tribune News Service · Jan 6, 2023 On Jan. 6 anniversary, Missouri Democrat Kunce launches bid to challenge Josh Hawley in 2024 KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Just months after a losing bid for U.S. Senate in Missouri, former Marine Lucas Kunce is launching another campaign — this time in an attempt to take down Republican Sen. Josh Hawley.
Reason · Dec 30, 2022 What the Southwest Meltdown Means for Airline Policy Re-regulating the airline industry won’t help prevent massive service disruptions in the future.
Salon · Jun 11, 2022 Biden's push for solar: Not enough? Biden's using the Defense Production Act (again) to boost the solar industry: Too much — or not nearly enough?