Popular writing

· Supply and the Housing Crisis: A Debate, Dissent, Winter 2025 (with Brian Callaci)

· Selling Power, Phenomenal World, January 8, 2025

· Rent Control Is Inflation Control, and Atlanta Is Ground Zero, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 4, 2024 (with Brian Callaci)

· How Antitrust Can Advance Kamala Harris’s Small-Business Agenda, Project Syndicate, October 31, 2024

· The Market Alone Can’t Fix the U.S. Housing Crisis, Harvard Business Review, September 12, 2024 (with Brian Callaci)

· Big IT Regulations Correct Unfair Trade Practices, Nikkei, August 2, 2024 (original in Japanese)

· An Antitrust Revolution: Why the FTC’s Renewed Focus on Coercion and Exploitation Matters, Roosevelt Forward: Fireside Stacks, July 18, 2024 (with Brian Callaci)

· The Best Way to Fight Heat Waves and Outages Is to Green the Grid, New Republic, July 17, 2024

· What If We Just Nationalize the Power Grid?, Heatmap News, June 6, 2024 (with Melanie Brusseler)

· The Gig Economy vs. America’s Workers, Project Syndicate, May 17, 2024

· The FTC Abolishes Non-Compete Clauses, LPE Blog, April 25, 2024 (with Jonathan Harris)

· Seeds of an Antitrust Revival, Democracy, March 13, 2024

· The Death of the Non-Compete Clause May Be Imminent, OnLabor, February 26, 2024 (with Daniel Hanley)

· The Red States Fighting the Good Fight Against Big Tech, New Republic, February 25, 2024 (with Tara Pincock)

· Uber and the Impoverished Public Expectations of the 2010s, American Prospect, January 16, 2024 (reviewing Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen, Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City (2023))

· Throwing the Book at Amazon’s Monopoly Hold on Publishing, Nation, January 8, 2024 (with Tara Pincock)

· The Defeat of Public Energy in Maine Isn’t Reason for Despair, Jacobin, November 26, 2023

· Workers Are an Untapped Resource for Antitrust Enforcers, The Sling, October 24, 2023 (with Brian Callaci)

· The Treatise That Has Misled Antitrust Lawyers for Decades, LPE Blog, October 5, 2023 (with Andy Fitch)

· It’s Past Time to Throw Out Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption, Boston Globe, October 3, 2023

· The IRA Is Still Being Formed, Democracy, September 28, 2023

· Biden Trustbusters Display Timidity in Proposed Merger Crackdown, Bloomberg Law, September 14, 2023 (with Brian Callaci)

· Biden’s Best Path to a Pro-Worker Economy Runs Through the Federal Trade Commission, New Republic, August 29, 2023 (with Brian Callaci)

· Antitrust Has a Generic-Drug Problem, The Atlantic, June 15, 2023

· The Social-Case for Bright-Line Antitrust Rules, The Sling, June 12, 2023

· To Regulate Big Corporations, Understand How They Got That Way, Harvard Business Review, May 24, 2023

· Vertical Mergers Are in the Crosshairs After Microsoft’s Activision Acquisition Was Blocked, Barron’s, May 11, 2023

· Beyond Noncompetes, Firms Use These Tactics to Stop Workers from Leaving, Washington Post, April 13, 2023

· The Shadow Empire That Fuels Amazon’s Dominance, New Republic, February 28, 2023

· The Fight Over Non-Competes Is Heating Up. The FTC Must Stand Strong, TIME Ideas, January 23, 2023

· Eight Reactions to the FTC’s Proposed Ban on Non-Competes, LPE Blog, January 19, 2023 (with Suresh Naidu, Catherine Fisk, and others)

· Why the US Must Ban Non-Compete Clauses, Project Syndicate, December 14, 2022 (with Najah A. Farley)

· Seven Reactions to the FTC’s Policy Statement on Unfair Methods of Competition, LPE Blog, November 29, 2022 (with Sanjukta Paul, Matthew Buck, and others)

· A Dubious Dichotomy at the Heart of Antitrust Law, The Sling, November 8, 2022

· Uber Drivers and McDonald’s Franchise Owners Have a Common Enemy, Slate, September 13, 2022 (with Brian Callaci)

· Inflation Is No Excuse for Squeezing Workers, Dissent, July 28, 2022 (with Brian Callaci)

· An Ultraconservative Federal Judiciary Means Congress Has to Work Even Harder, Balls and Strikes, May 19, 2022

· The Poverty Wages and Indentured Servitude of Baseball’s Minor Leaguers, American Prospect, May 3, 2022 (with David Seligman)

· How 37 Puerto Rican Jockeys Created an Opening for Gig Worker Unionizing, New Republic, May 2, 2022

· Beginnings of an Antitrust Revolution?, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, April 13, 2022

· Merger Policy for a Fair Economy, LPE Blog, April 5, 2022

· On Antitrust, Don’t Take Big Tech’s Word for It, Boston Review, March 15, 2022

· How an Old U.S. Antitrust Law Could Foster a Fairer Retail Sector, Harvard Business Review, February 9, 2022 (with Brian Callaci)

· In a Hot Labor Market, Coercive Contracts Bind Millions to Current Job, Newsweek, February 1, 2022

· Antitrust Law’s Unwritten Rules of Unfair Competition, ProMarket, November 17, 2021

· Fair Competition Policy without a Fair Competition Philosophy, LPE Blog, November 1, 2021

· Review Rules Generous to Monopoly: GAFA and Competition Policy, Nikkei, October 21, 2021 (original in Japanese)

· A Brief History of Stephen Breyer Enabling Corporate Power, Balls and Strikes, October 13, 2021

· How Biden Can Reinvent Big Pharma, American Prospect, July 20, 2021

· How to Save the Case Against Facebook, Slate, June 30, 2021

· Supreme Court Affirms Limited Win for College Athletes But Helps Monopolies, Washington Monthly, June 24, 2021

· Antimonopoly Is About Democratizing the Food System (and the Rest of the Economy), LPE Blog, June 3, 2021 (with Claire Kelloway)

· How Biden’s FTC Can Go After Google and Facebook, Democracy, May 25, 2021

· Antitrust Law Is the Key to Making the NCAA Pay Student-Athletes, Washington Post, April 1, 2021

· Ban All Big Mergers. Period., Atlantic, February 25, 2021 (with Robert Lande)

· Biden Can Free Millions from Coercive Employment Contracts, Bloomberg Law, February 5, 2021

· Gig Workers Need Antitrust Reform, Dissent, December 18, 2020

· Antitrust Litigation Isn’t Enough. Biden Needs to Go Further, WIRED, December 10, 2020

· The Functional Logic of Antitrust: Oligarchy vs. Democracy, Law & Political Economy, October 22, 2020

· Can We Trust Monopolies to Play Fair?, Public Seminar, October 19, 2020

· What the Next President Can Do About Big Tech’s Power, Slate, October 7, 2020

· How Antitrust Perpetuates Structural Racism, Appeal, September 16, 2020

· Automation of Labor, Labor of Automation, Law & Political Economy, September 16, 2020 (interview of Professor Frank Pasquale on his book New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI)

· The Maker of Fortnite Is Showing How to Take on Big Tech, Barron’s, August 21, 2020

· Bill Barr Unwittingly Makes the Case for Banning Major Corporate Mergers, Harvard Law & Policy Review Online, July 23, 2020

· Imagining a Democratic Amazon, Democracy, July 16, 2020

· Doctors, Nurses and Patients Could Suffer If Congress Doesn't Outlaw These Contracts, CNN, July 6, 2020

· Challenging the NCAA Cartel: When Consumer Welfare Equals Worker Exploitation, Harvard Law Review Blog, June 9, 2020

· Can COVID-19 Get Congress to Finally Strengthen U.S. Antitrust Law?, Washington Monthly, May 21, 2020 (with Robert Lande)

· Much of Antitrust Law Today Is Based on Unsupported or Demonstrably False Economic Theories. Will Economists Take Heed?, ProMarket, May 13, 2020

· The Federal Government Wants to Let These Financial Predators Off the Hook, American Prospect, April 13, 2020

· The Case for Universal Labor and Employment Rights, Law & Political Economy, March 5, 2020 (with Amanda Jaret)

· Antitrust Authorities Have Been Busy. The Public Needs to Get Involved Too., Barron’s, February 21, 2020

· How the Sprint-T-Mobile Merger Legitimizes Monopoly, Washington Monthly, February 11, 2020

· Antitrust’s Monopsony Problem, ProMarket, February 3, 2020 (with Matthew Buck)

· Non-Compete Clauses Are Suffocating American Workers, TIME Ideas, December 19, 2019 (with Amanda Jaret)

· Two-and-a-Half Cheers for 1960s Merger Policy, HLS Antitrust Blog, December 13, 2019

· A Fair Labor Market for Food-Chain Workers, American Prospect, November 22, 2019 (with Claire Kelloway)

· Make Antitrust Democratic Again!, Nation, November 12, 2019 (with Sanjukta Paul)

· Unleashing the Existing Anti-Monopoly Arsenal, American Prospect, September 24, 2019

· How Robert Bork Fathered the New Gilded Age, ProMarket, September 5, 2019

· We Must End “Rule by Contract”, Current Affairs, August 19, 2019

· There’s More Than One Way to Fight Monopoly, Atlantic, August 11, 2019 (with Nathan Schneider)

· A Win for Cheap Alcohol, A Loss for Democracy, American Prospect, July 8, 2019

· Killing Antitrust Softly (through Procedure), Law & Political Economy, June 11, 2019

· Noncompete Clauses Trap #MeToo Victims in Abusive Workplaces. The FTC Should Ban Them., USA Today, May 14, 2019 (with Sally Hubbard)

· A Charter for a Clean, Democratic Future, Trouble, May 12, 2019

· American Prosperity Depends on Stopping Mega-Mergers, Financial Times Alphaville, April 25, 2019

· The Bogus Justification for Worker Non-Compete Clauses, On Labor, April 24, 2019

· The Erosion of Public Control Over Public Utilities, Law & Political Economy, March 14, 2019

· Trump’s Big Tech Bluster, New York Times, March 6, 2019 (with Matthew Buck)

· The FTC Might Just Be Progressives’ Secret Weapon, Washington Monthly, January/February/March 2019

· Cooperation for the 99%, Take Care, December 20, 2018

· The Uneasy Case Against Occupational Licensing (Part II), Law & Political Economy, December 6, 2018 (with Frank Pasquale)

· The Uneasy Case Against Occupational Licensing (Part I), Law & Political Economy, November 30, 2018 (with Frank Pasquale)

· How the FTC Protects Strong Employers and Targets Weak Workers, ProMarket, November 19, 2018

· Corporations Have a Friend in Judge Kavanaugh, Hill, August 29, 2018

· How Contemporary Antitrust Robs Workers of Power, Law & Political Economy, July 19, 2018

· America’s Most Insidious Union Buster? Its Own Government, Guardian, June 29, 2018

· Against the Cult of Competition, Law & Political Economy, April 11, 2018

· Neil Gorsuch’s Alarming Views on Antitrust and Monopoly, Washington Monthly, March 17, 2017

· How America Became Uncompetitive and Unequal, Washington Post, June 15, 2014 (with Lina Khan)

· A License to Collude, Competition Policy International, From Collusion to Competition Issue (2013)

· Google: The Unique Case of the Monopolistic Search Engine, 4 Journal of European Competition Law and Practice 199 (2013) (with Albert Foer)

· Book Review, The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy, 27 ASEAN Economic Bulletin 241 (2010)