On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “Monopoly Isn’t a Game” Preet answers listener questions about the importance of keeping ongoing investigations under wraps, and the recent news that former White House Counsel Don McGahn has struck a deal to testify before Congress.

Then, Preet interviews Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar about her new book, Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age and the work that she’s doing as Chairwoman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights. 

Don’t miss the bonus for CAFE Insiders, where Senator Klobuchar discusses the antitrust proposal that she unveiled in February. 

We have a new podcast! Each Tuesday, historians Heather Cox Richardson & Joanne Freeman will help us make sense of the week’s news through the historical lens and share resonant anecdotes from the American past. The first episode of “Now & Then” comes out Tuesday, June 1st. Just search and follow “Now & Then” on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!  

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Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; Editorial Producers: Sam Ozer-Staton, Jake Kaplan, David Kurlander, Noa Azulai.

REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

QUESTION & ANSWER:

• Charlie Savage, “House Democrats and White House Reach Deal Over Testimony by Ex-Trump Aide,” New York Times, 5/11/2021
• “Committee on the Judiciary v. Don McGahn,” Joint Status Report, DC Circuit Court of Appeals, 5/11/2021

THE INTERVIEW:

• Amy Klobuchar, Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age, Knopf, 4/27/2021
• “Senator Klobuchar Introduces Sweeping Bill to Promote Competition and Improve Antitrust Enforcement,” Klobuchar.Senate.Gov, 2/4/2021
• “Corporate Consolidation,” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, 9/25/2017
• Ashley Gold, “Cicilline to Zuckerberg: Facebook too big to contain deadly content,” Axios, 7/29/2020

ANTITRUST HISTORY

• Matthew Lasar, “How AT&T Conquered the 20th Century,” WIRED, 9/3/2011
• Paul Sagar, “The real Adam Smith,” Aeon, 1/16/2018
• “Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976,” FTC.gov
• Mary Pilon, “Monopoly’s Inventor: The Progressive Who Didn’t Pass ‘Go,’” New York Times, 2/13/2015

ANTITRUST TODAY

• Brent Kendall and John D. McKinnon, “Filing Facebook Lawsuit Is Career-Defining Act for FTC Chairman,” Wall Street Journal, 12/11/2020
• “President Biden Announces his Intent to Nominate Lina Khan for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission,” WhiteHouse.gov, 3/22/2021
• Chris Mathews, “Attorney general nominee Garland says he will ‘vigorously’ enforce antitrust law,” MarketWatch.com, 2/22/2021
• “Murphy, Young Reintroduce Bill To Protect American Workers, Limit Non-Compete Agreements,” Murphy.Senate.Gov, 2/25/2021

BUTTON

• “Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Operator of Luxury Eye wear Website With Cyberstalking, Threatening, and Defrauding His Customers,” Justice.gov, 12/6/2010
• “Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Operator Of Online Retailer For Running Fraudulent Eyewear Website,” Justice.gov, 5/25/2017
• David Segal, “A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web,” New York Times, 11/26/2010
• David Segal, “U.S. Arrests Online Seller Who Scared Customers,” New York Times, 12/6/2010
• David Segal, “Eyeglass Vendor, Imprisoned for Terrorizing Consumers, Is Accused of Fraud,” New York Times, May 25, 2017
• David Segal, “Has Online Retail’s Biggest Bully Returned?” New York Times, May 2, 2021
• Amit Singhal, “Being bad to your customers is bad for business,” Google.com, 12/6/2010