August 20, 2019
When Federal Trade Commission member Christine Wilson invoked the phrase “national nanny” to describe the dangers of an overreaching agency, she was using words that have haunted the commission for more than 40 years.
August 20, 2019
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are making headlines for investigating major online platforms, but a follow-through — pursuing actual challenges against the behemoth...
August 20, 2019
Ensuring fairness or censuring speech. Those are key issues in a debate over the Trump administration’s discussions of empowering agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission and the...
August 20, 2019
It didn’t start with the Sherman Act. While much of the political and legal discussion of trustbusting uses the 1890 law as a starting point, Charles Postel contends more attention should be paid...
August 20, 2019
The photo on the “healthy eats & treats” Instagram account shows a carefully arranged breakfast plate, the pancakes just-so drizzled. Click “like,” follow the account and follow pancake...
August 20, 2019
After 10 years of legal action, the Federal Trade Commission is wrapping up legal action against a California Internet firm called Commerce Planet and is refunding $748,070 to consumers.
August 20, 2019
During these dog days of summer let us pause to remember Dr. Henry D. Cogswell, who brought the oddest and ugliest public monument to the streets of Washington, and in the process left a lasting...
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