Hey, everybody, it's Neely.

Decoder's on a short summer break right now, but we'll be back starting June 23rd with some new episodes, and we are very excited for what we have on the schedule.

In the meantime, we have an episode from the excellent podcast. Stay tuned with Preet.

Host Preet Barrara sat down with former FTC chair Lena Kahn for a pretty high-level discussion about antitrust, monopoly power, and the ongoing shift from

both political parties in the United States towards a more aggressive, bipartisan regulation

of big tech.

We've covered Lena's tenure at the FTC pretty closely here at the verge.

And as Dakota listeners know, we've had former DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Cantor, who worked

in tandem with Lena in some of the biggest monopoly cases the government

has ever brought against Big Tech as a guest a number of times here on Decoder.

Here, Preet really dives into the history of how Lena's philosophy and antitrust evolved from

her time at law school and her perspective on the current slate of cases facing companies like

Amazon, Google, and META. I think you're really going to find this one interesting.

Okay, here's Preet Berara interviewing former FTC Charolina Khan on Stay Tuned with Prit.

Here we go.

From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.

I'm Prit Barara.

One of the biggest ways that we've seen anti-monopoly make such advances is because the evidence has been on our side.

We had a shortage of infant formula in this country in the year 2022 from a single contamination in a single factory.

That's Lena Khan. She made history in 2021 when President Biden appointed her as the youngest ever chair of the Federal Trade Commission at age 32.

During her time at the FTC, Khan accused big companies of using their power to push out competitors and hurt small businesses. Today, Lena Khan joins me to discuss the influential paper she wrote in law school

that launched her into the spotlight and paved her path to the FTC. We'll also explore the nature

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