VIDEO · 2026
A Scheme to Keep Grocery Prices High
A More Perfect Union investigation into how Walmart and Pepsi rigged the market against independent grocers.
PODCAST · 2025
Food Deserts
An episode of 99% Invisible built around my research tracing the surprising antitrust origins of food deserts, which largely did not exist prior to the late 1980s.
KEYNOTE · 2024
Democracy vs. Big Tech
A Bioneers keynote on monopoly power, political powerlessness, and the fight to rebuild democracy.
PODCAST · 2025
Challenging Monopoly Power
A wide-ranging conversation with Nate Hagens on how corporate concentration affects communities and why local business builds resilience.
PODCAST · 2025
How Zoning Favors Corporate Monopolies
A conversation on Talking Headways about the hidden policy choices that shape which businesses thrive and what our communities become.
VIDEO · 2024
What Dollar General Doesn’t Want You to Know
A More Perfect Union investigation looks underneath the so-called low prices to find a deceptive and harmful business model.
VIDEO · 2023
What Scorpion Venom Has to Do With Amazon’s Monopoly
A bizarre package mix-up opens onto the larger story of how Amazon uses its power over sellers to reinforce its monopoly.
PODCAST · 2021
But They Make It So Easy!
A conversation with Baratunde Thurston about the hidden cost of convenience and why building a better economy requires thinking like citizens rather than consumers.
DOCUMENTARY · 2020
Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos
PBS’s FRONTLINE investigates Amazon’s rise and monopolization strategy, drawing on interviews with people who have studied the company.
AUDIO · 2019
Making America Antitrust Again
A concise history of how antitrust lost its way — and why protecting democracy requires thinking beyond consumer prices to the distribution of economic power.
PODCAST · 2019
Amazon’s Wish List with Stacy Mitchell
A wide-ranging conversation with Chris Hayes about Amazon’s expanding control over the infrastructure of commerce and the bad bargains we’ve made in the name of efficiency.
TEDx TALK · 2012
Why We Can’t Shop Our Way to a Better Economy
An early warning about corporate concentration, the antimonopoly roots of the Boston Tea Party, and why shopping local isn’t enough.