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Zephyr Teachout

Zephyr Teachout is a Law Professor at Fordham, the author of Corruption in America (2014) and Break 'em Up: Recovering our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money (2020).

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KANGAROO COURT

Facebook’s Authoritarian Oversight Board Is Downright Trumpy

The enemy of your enemy is not your friend—they represent two competing visions of abuse of power.

Zephyr Teachout

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History Lesson

What Ben Franklin Can Teach the Clintons

The King of France gave Ben Franklin a snuff box. He did le roi no favors in return—but he soon came to see that that wasn’t good enough.

Zephyr Teachout

Net Neutrality

How the Little Guys Beat the Monopolists

A year ago, the FCC had sold out. Now it’s pushing real net neutrality. What happened in between proves that people power works.

Zephyr Teachout

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Capitol Games

Hunger Games Comes to New York’s Schools

The same billionaires who just bought the New York State Senate now want to own public education. It’s starve, test, and destroy.

Zephyr Teachout

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Corporations Are People 3.0

The Year’s Most Important SCOTUS Case

Two of most important cases of 2014 you never heard of involve teeth and trains—and whether corporations can just become the government.

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