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Fighters Win Key Ruling in Case That Could Upend U.F.C.’s Business A judge said he would grant class-action status to a group of fighters arguing that the Ultimate Fighting Championship suppresses pay. If the fighters win, it could force the U.F.C. to pay much, much more. The U.F.C. has paid...

Opinion | The Monopolization of America In one industry after another, big companies have become more dominant over the past 15 years, new data show. By David Leonhardt Opinion Columnist Nov. 25, 2018 The popular telling of the Boston Tea Party gets something wrong. The colonists were not...

Big tech platforms — Amazon, Facebook, Google — control a large and growing share of our commerce and communications, and the scope and degree of their dominance poses real hazards. A bipartisan consensus has formed around this idea. Senator Elizabeth Warren has charged tech giants with using...

It seems that every year brings news of an attempted merger between giant corporations. This year begins with the ongoing saga of AT&T attempting to take over Time Warner, and with it come important questions about declining competition in the modern American economy. Our paper, “A policy at...