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Journalists Bill Morlin and Leah Sottile join Crosscut’s Managing Editor, Mark Baumgarten, to discuss a range of topics, including the uprising by groups motivated by a white, nationalist agenda, why the Pacific Northwest is attractive to individuals with these views, the presence of military and law enforcement within these extremist groups, the Liberty State movement in Washington, and what individuals can do to prevent hatred and discourage these growing ideologies.
Inspired by the Crosscut Festival, the At-Large speaker series features in-depth conversations with renowned journalists and authors about the big issues and big ideas making headlines across the country and here at home.
Pedestrians walk past the spheres near the Amazon campus in downtown Seattle, May 10, 2018. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
As a concept, antitrust may seem fairly simple. Companies that get too big and abuse their powers to unfairly eliminate competition, and maybe drive up prices, must be brought to heel, either through regulation or a breakup.
But the reality is not so simple, and the history of trustbusting in the United States has been uneven at best. Still, the government has managed to employ this power to interfere in the market to manage Big Oil, Big Railroad and Big Steel. Now it looks as if those powers will again be used, this time against Big Tech, in particular on Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon.
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