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 freshman congresswoman was right: The pro-Israel lobby uses financial muscle to influence Congress. That shouldn't be a controversial statement.

The House of Representatives' first oversight hearing of 2019 wasn't about Trump. It was about skyrocketing drug prices.

Janitors, security guards, and other contractors deserve back pay after the shutdown ends, just like federal employees do.

The Democratic leader wants to resurrect a House rule that will hinder progressive legislation.

The Trump task force's recommendations would undermine the agency's mission to bind the country together.

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.

The Wisconsin governor's disastrous deal with Foxconn cost him his seat in Tuesday's midterm elections.

The potential 2020 candidates are often portrayed as identical progressives. A closer look proves otherwise.

He could have been banished for securities fraud, but the government feared the consequences for Tesla's shareholders.

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

The economy continues to grow, yet wages remain flat. Corporate concentration may be to blame.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has a simple idea for keeping big business accountable to the American public, not just shareholders.

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

Why was Representative Chris Collins allowed to serve on the board of a pharmaceutical company?

Trump once supported more forgiving loans, but Betsy DeVos has other ideas. Meanwhile, Democrats are uniting around debt-free college.

Free-trade proponents accuse Trump of imperiling a decades-old system, but a reckoning was due no matter what.

It took only a week for the company to prove its critics right.