Imagine if Congress, for some odd reason, wanted to punish Chuck Norris. It might pass a tax bill that only pertains to “martial artists who are ranch owners retired from acting careers in film and television.” Not only would that be unwise (this is Chuck Norris we’re talking about), it also would be unconstitutional to use seemingly objective definitions meant to single out one person. The Constitution wisely forbids such bills of attainder.

October is proving to be a busy month for Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan. As she completes her term, Khan’s calendar has the feel of a political farewell tour.

In the late Middle Ages, artisans melted down florins, the Florentine coin of pure gold, to apply it as gold leaf for floating halos over the heads of the saints. Today, if you are Lina Khan, you just go to Leslie Stahl.

The Federal Trade Commission scored a PR victory with a report last week that accuses prominent social media and video streaming companies of lax privacy controls, especially in how they handle the data of children and teens.

On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission, under the direction of Chair Lina Khan, argued its case to block the merger between grocery chains Kroger and Albertsons before Judge Adrienne Nelson in a federal court in Portland.

Having failed to pass legislation that would force America’s leading digital companies to open their source codes to foreign competitors and dictatorial regimes, Sen. Amy Klobuchar now has a new brainchild – the Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act.

By Robert H. Bork, Jr. September 3, 2024 Have you ever shopped for groceries at a Walmart, a Trader Joe’s, an…

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is always shopping for the right judge to validate her eccentric, extra-statutory theories of antitrust as a way to regulate everything. Yet in case after case, Khan keeps coming up snake eyes.

Vice President Kamala Harris doubled down today in her Raleigh, North Carolina, speech on the same strategy that gave Americans inflation. Her plan promises more inflation, only this time with food shortages. Harris would do that by putting the government in charge of approving food prices, while extending the Biden budget blowout.

Tim Wu took to the pages of The New York Times to suggest the punishments – I mean remedies – he wants Judge Amit Mehta to inflict on Google for monopolistic behavior. None of Wu’s punishments involve the Iron Maiden, but they are predictably extreme.