While I am always highly skeptical that the states can really lead on major issues such as fighting monopoly, it is necessary now given the stranglehold the far right has.
1880s 1889 PUCK POLITICAL CARTOON THE BOSSES OF THE SENATE MONOPOLY CORPORATE INTERESTS LEAD TO SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT (Photo by Nawrocki/ClassicStock/Getty Images) In the end I think this sort of.
Your long read of the day should be David Dayen's essay on the need for a new era of antitrust enforcement and perhaps new legislation. After all, the Sherman Anti-Trust.
Good conversation between Thomas Frank and Barry Lynn over the history of monopoly and politics in the United States connecting the two Gilded Ages, how Americans tamed monopoly, and how.
