It feels like every day now you read another story about some big antitrust investigation,

some proposal to change things up, but a lot of people don't really understand how

antitrust policy works institutionally, legally or historically.

This interview I was able to do with Charlotte Slamon from Public Knowledge is really great.

She's a real expert in this.

She has done it as a practitioner and now as a policy analyst.

I think it's going to really help you understand what the whole antitrust debate that we're

having right now means.

Check it out.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Eglaceus and I'm here today with Charlotte Slamon.

She's a policy council at Public Knowledge, formerly an attorney in the anti-competitive

practices division of the Federal Trade Commission here to tell us about antitrust.

The author of a great new report on this subject.

I'm going to start with a dumb question.

I follow people talking all the time.

It's like some companies are really big and if the president doesn't like that, they're

too big, you can just break them up.

Teddy Roosevelt, he was a trust buster and maybe we should do that again.

Is that that's antitrust laws?

Is that what you did at the FGC?

That quite.

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