Corporate Crackdown

Now is the time for progressives to weigh in on jobs that don’t require Senate confirmation.

FTC Chair Lina Khan has explicitly called for more resources to investigate oil and gas mergers, as current funding and staffing levels are forcing the agency to “make difficult decisions” on how to pursue enforcement in oil and gas markets. How many more anti-competitive business practices could the agency unveil with more time and funding?

Ostensibly prestigious universities are partnering with online programs that offer non-degree courses to the tune of more than $10,000. Prominent names like Caltech, USC, and Georgetown have lent credibility to the programs, but they are little more than a scam facilitated by Obama-era deregulation.

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission took enforcement action against Invitation Homes, the country’s largest single-family home landlord. It’s an action that not only identifies corporate malfeasance as a key source of the sky-high rent prices tenants are facing, but one that also sends a warning shot to other corporate landlords to quit using such practices – with the potential larger impact of lowering rental prices.

As The New Presidential Nominee, VP Harris Can Secure The Support Of The Majority Of Americans By Pursuing A Corporate Crackdown

Jonathan Chait has been using his column in New York Mag’s Intelligencer to criticize the Biden administration’s populist modifications of Obamaism and warn Vice President Harris against continuing Biden’s domestic economic agenda. In Chait’s piece Kamala Harris’s Economic Plan: Good Politics, Meh Policy, he joined the chorus of pundits lambasting Harris’ policies to take on corporate power.

The last time she ran for president, Kamala Harris gave a 16-minute interview with then-Mother Jones reporter Rebecca Leber about her vision for tackling the climate crisis. Harris brought evident comfort and energy to the topic, but most striking was the framing to which she returned again and again: corporate accountability.

In response to the lawsuit filed today by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and eight states, the Revolving Door Project issued the following statement.