Why Amy Klobuchar just wrote 600 pages on antitrust

Photo: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) Daniel Acker / Bloomberg via Getty Images. Article by Steven Levy. Ars Technica (This story originally appeared on wired.com.) – May 9, 2021.

“Monopolies tend to have a lot of control, not just over consumers, but also over politics.”

To promote her new book, Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota gave a series of interviews this week, one of which was with me. She told me outright that our session was not her favorite of the tour—that honor went to her comedic exchange with Stephen Colbert a few days earlier, which she recounted to me line by line. […]

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