lina khan

  • Lina Khan’s Partisan Pivot Should Be the Beginning of Her End

    Democratic candidates are crisscrossing the country to garner support before November’s elections. Joining campaign events alongside the likes of Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi will be an unlikely star and supposedly independent federal employee, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan.  Khan is due to travel to Austin, Chicago, and Arizona…

  • Misinformed Jon Stewart Applauds FTC Chair Lina Khan

    It’s not often that the head of a U.S. federal agency is given the red carpet treatment on Comedy Central, but for Jon Stewart, it’s to be expected. Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), appeared on the revamped Daily Show featuring Stewart as host on Monday nights, to hype up the FTC’s work battling…

  • Split up Amazon, Prime and AWS? If Biden’s FTC breaks up Bezos’ company, consumers lose

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    FTC and Lina Khan think consumers need to take one for the team when it comes to sacrificing their savings, in both time and money, that Amazon creates. Lina Khan is not tired of losing. Fresh off her latest defeat in court in pursuit of antitrust enforcement against Microsoft, President Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission…

  • Would Lina Khan’s real-life FTC break up Succession’s fictional Waystar RoyCo?

    The truth is often stranger than fiction. In this season of the hit HBO show Succession , viewers are subjected not just to the business antics of the troubled Roy family but also to politicians and regulatory agencies using their power to rein in the firm’s activities and acquisitions. Though it is a work of…