David Dayen

@ddayen

A Yale professor's transformation from sober academic to antitrust crusader

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google are fighting for unbroken control of American life.

Politically influential companies have been avoiding criminal prosecution since long before Trump became president.

The single most important vote of the 116th Congress will be on trade: specifically, the NAFTA replacement. We have absolutely no idea where the new legislators stand on it.

Timothy Geithner's refusal to obey his boss has had long-term political and economic consequences.

The influential congressman is among a wave of Democrats running for attorney general to take on Trump directly.

The biggest fears about the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster have come true, a new government report shows.

How a pot crisis restarted a conversation about public banking in America

As Mark Zuckerberg testifies to Congress about Facebook's privacy failures, here's a wholesale solution for politicians to consider.

History suggests that the Trump administration's zeal for financial deregulation could lead to an economic crisis.

Fiscal scolds say the bipartisan agreement will irreparably damage the country. In truth, it will help those hurt the most by the Great Recession.

The education secretary's latest move is another favor to for-profit colleges.

Why the government goes easy on corporate crime.

After Hurricane Harvey, lawmakers could keep shoveling money into stopgap programs—or they could admit that warming seas won't fix themselves.

Did Trump use an executive order to aid a generous corporate backer?

When the Justice Department goes easy on Wall Street, battered women pay the price.

The outgoing president has one final trump card—and he should play it.

What John Podesta’s emails from 2008 reveal about the way power works in the Democratic Party.

They’re fleeing from Trump—and finding a wiser way to spend their millions.