When most people think of CNN, I’m sure they think of cable news or 24/7 breaking news alerts. We’ve also got a really good news web site. I know because it’s a large part of what I work on each day. There’s some great journalism going on there. This morning I was reading Edward-Isaac Dovere’s piece Why Democrats with 2028 hopes are calling Lina Khan – and what she’s telling them about remaking the economy:
In 2023, the FTC challenged patents it said were improperly listed, pushing drug manufacturers to allow generic, cheaper versions of some asthma inhalers. And Khan dusted off a 1973 rule originally inspired by book-of-the-month club enforcement and tried to use it to require sellers to make it easier for people to click to cancel online subscriptions.
She went after Amazon for fees charged to businesses selling on the platform. She also moved to stop a $24.6 billion acquisition of the Albertsons grocery chain by Kroger on the grounds that it would raise costs and reduce consumer choice. The acquisition was eventually abandoned after a federal judge blocked the deal.
Today, Khan says the “affordability part of the conversation” inside the Democratic Party must be “paired with accountability.”
It’s a great piece on Khan’s influence on folks across the political spectrum. I knew she was both influential and polarizing, but it seems now, Democrats are more interested in embracing her ideas than ever before. That’s a new shift, and I wouldn’t have been aware without this reporting.