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Mayor Durkan, don’t break your $30M affordable housing promise
Last year’s sale of the “Mercer Megablock” in South Lake Union was meant to benefit community development, not plug a budget hole.
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1912: When antitrust views collided in a presidential election
Today we fight over Big Tech. Over a century ago, the burning political question was what to do about trusts in agriculture, cigarettes, oil, electricity and steel.
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Capitalism, competition, and why antitrust is so confusing
Antitrust law lies at the fault line where the ideology of the capitalist marketplace begins to self-destruct.
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A new era of trustbusting could begin with Amazon, tech giants
21st century antitrust activity targets the companies that mine our data and control so much of our digital infrastructure.
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How poverty hurts Washington state’s democracy
In an age of increasing economic insecurity, should we strengthen the social safety net, or transcend it?