Writing

Rolling Back Corporate Concentration: How New Federal Antimerger Guidelines Can Restore Competition and Build Local Power, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, June 2022

We Need a Popular Front to Overthrow Corporate Rule. Small Businesses Are Key. The Forge, Mar. 24, 2022.

Report: Amazon’s Toll Road, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, December 2021.

There’s a New Duo That Could Help Rein In AmazonNew York Times, Jun. 17, 2021

Fact Sheet: How Amazon Exploits and Undermines Small Businesses, and Why Breaking It Up Would Revive American Entrepreneurship, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, June 2021

How the FTC Protected the Market Power of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (with Zach Freed) ProMarket, Feb. 19, 2021

Small pharmacies beat big chains at delivering vaccines. Don’t look so shocked. Washington Post, Feb. 5, 2021

Report: Rebuilding Small Business for a Robust Recovery: A Federal Policy Agenda, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Dec. 2020

Why the Left Should Ally With Small Business, The Nation, Nov. 18, 2020

Don’t Let Amazon Get Any Bigger, New York Times, Oct. 8, 2020

Amazon Is a Private Government. Congress Needs to Step Up., The Atlantic, Aug. 10, 2020

Report: Amazon’s Monopoly Tollbooth, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, July 2020

Report: Fewer Small Businesses are Receiving Federal Relief Loans in States Dominated by Big Banks, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, April 2020

Comments on the adequacy of the antitrust laws, submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, May 4, 2020

How a Rebirth of Independent Pharmacies Could Cure Rural Ills, The American Conservative, Nov. 6, 2019.

How Amazon Rigs Its Shopping Algorithm, Blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Nov. 6, 2019.

Testimony Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Hearing on: Online Platforms and Market Power Part 2: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, July 16, 2019

Walmart’s Monopolization of Local Grocery Markets, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, June 2019.

Elizabeth Warren Has a Theory About Corporate Power, The Atlantic, May 16, 2019.

The FTC is Approving a Merger that Will Help Staples and Amazon Cripple Independent Businesses, Washington Monthly, Feb. 26, 2019.

Dollar Stores Are Targeting Struggling Urban Neighborhoods and Small Towns. One Community Is Showing How to Fight Back., ILSR, Dec. 6, 2018.

Unfair Advantage: Stacy Mitchell On How Amazon Undermines Local Economies, The Sun, November 2018.

The Truth About Big Business, Washington Monthly, July/August 2018.

Amazon’s Next Frontier: Your City’s Purchasing, (with Olivia LaVecchia), Institute for Local Self-Reliance, July 2018.

6 Ways to Rein In Today’s Monopolies, The Nation, February 16, 2018.

Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market, The Nation, February 15, 2018.

Amazon Is Trying to Control the Underlying Infrastructure of Our Economy, Motherboard, June 25, 2017.

The Rise and Fall of the Word ‘Monopoly’ in American Life, The Atlantic, June 20, 2017.

Amazon’s Stranglehold (with Olivia LaVecchia), Institute for Local Self-Reliance, November 2016.

Monopoly Power and the Decline of Small Business: The Case for Restoring America’s Once Robust Antitrust Policies, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, August 2016.

After Three Decades of Neglect, Antitrust Is Back on the Democratic Platform, Truthout, Aug 4, 2016.

How Rising Commercial Rents Are Threatening Independent Businesses, and What Cities Are Doing About It (with Olivia LaVecchia), Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Apr 20, 2016.

With 269 Stores Closing, Is this the Beginning of the End for Walmart?, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Feb. 17, 2016.

How Washington Punishes Small Business, Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2015.

One in Four Local Banks Has Vanished since 2008. Here’s What’s Causing the Decline and Why We Should Treat It as a National Crisis., Institute for Local Self-Reliance, May 5, 2015

Walmart’s Dirty Energy Secret, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Nov 20, 2014.

North Dakota’s Pharmacy Ownership Law Leads to Better Pharmacy Care (with Olivia LaVecchia), Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Oct 20, 2014.

Why Walmart’s Death Grip on Our Food System Is Intensifying Poverty, Truthout, March 29, 2013