Writing

2025. “Rent Controls Work — but They Aren’t a Silver Bullet.” Jacobin, July 9.

2025. “To Get Abundance, We Need to Discipline Capital.” Jacobin, June 17.

2025. “Big Fast-Food Squeezes Workers and Franchisees Alike.” Capitol Weekly, March 28.

2025. “Supply and the Housing Crisis: A Debate.” Dissent, Winter 2025.

2024. “Rent Control is Inflation Control, and Atlanta is Ground Zero.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 4.

2024. “The Market Alone Can’t Fix the U.S. Housing Crisis.” Harvard Business Review, September 12.

2024. “An Antitrust Revolution: Why the FTC’s Renewed Focus on Coercion and Exploitation Matters.” Fireside Stacks, July 18.

2024. “Joseph Stiglitz and the Limits of Liberal Freedom.” Jacobin, July 3.

2024. “Antitrust Lessons from Labor.” Competition Policy International, June 24.

2024. “Lessons from Starbucks Workers United and the Fight for $15.” Dissent, April 29.

2024. “The Limits of Anti-Monopsony Antitrust.” LPE Blog, January 22.

2023. “The Antitrust Lessons of the OpenAI Saga.” The Nation, December 12.

2023. “Noncompete Clauses Hurt Workers and the Economy.” Albany Times Union, November 6.

2023. “Biden Says Goodbye to Tweezer Economics.” The Atlantic, October 26.

2023. “Workers Are an Untapped Resource for Antitrust Enforcers.” The Sling, October 24.

2023. “How Antitrust Law Can Help Rebuild Labor.” Marxist Sociology, September 22.

2023. “Biden Trustbusters Display Timidity in Proposed Merger Crackdown.” Bloomberg Law, September 14.

2023. “No, Sky-High Drug Prices Aren’t Funding Crucial New Medical Research.” Jacobin, September 18.

2023. “Biden’s Best Path to a Pro-Worker Economy Runs Through the Federal Trade Commission.” The New Republic, August 29.

2023. “When Socialists Put an End to Pasta Inflation.” Jacobin, June 11.

2023. “The Classic Theory of Albert O. Hirschman Argues Against the US Chamber’s Case for Non-Competes.” ProMarket, June 7.

2023. “Curbing Merger Mania.” Project Syndicate, March 1.

2023. “Baseball Players Defeated Non-Competes to Build Union.” Labor Notes, February 20.

2023. “Charting a New Course: Ways to Build up Labor Influence Moving Forward.” Niskanen Center, January 19.

2022. “Can the Consumer Welfare Standard Accommodate Labor Harms?” The Sling, November 10.

2022. “Reining in UPMC’s Monopsony Power Key to Addressing Workforce Crisis in Pittsburgh Hospitals.” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, November 9.

2022. “Big Tech Global Monopolies are Hurting Everyone.” Buffalo News, November 6.

2022. “Uber Drivers and McDonald’s Franchise Owners Have a Common Enemy.” Slate, September 13.

2022. “Inflation is No Excuse for Squeezing Workers.” Dissent, July 28.

2022. “Antitrust and Labor Movements Return to Their Roots.” Democracy Journal, April 18.

2022. “Amazon Warehouses Are Relentless, Dangerous Workplaces—but It’s Hard to Punish Them for It, Thanks to Bill Clinton.” The New Republic, March 25.

2022. “How an Old U.S. Antitrust Law Could Foster a Fairer Retail Sector.” Harvard Business Review, February 9.

2021. “Are Low Wages a Market Failure?” Boston Review, November 23.

2021. “What Do Franchisees Do? Vertical Restraints as Workplace Fissuring and Labor Discipline Devices.” LPE Blog, November 18.

2021. “21st Century Antitrust Reforms and the American Worker.” Testimony to the House Antitrust Subcommittee. September 28.

2021. “Entrepreneurship, Amazon Style.” The American Prospect. September 27.

2021. “It’s Time for Labor to Embrace Antimonopoly.” Forge Organizing, April 13.

2021. “Gig Work as Disguised Unemployment.” Points, January 26.

2020. “Uber and Lyft Are Thinking About a Franchise Model. That Won’t Fix the Gig Economy’s Problems.” Slate, August 24.

2020. “Why are Good Jobs Disappearing if Robots Aren’t Taking Them?” With Sareeta Amrute and Alex Rosenblat. Points, June 26.

2020. “Digital Scabs, Digital Snitches: On Automation and Worker Surveillance. ” Phenomenal World, May 28.

2020. “Frontline Workers Deserve More Than Hazard Pay.” The American Prospect. April 26.

2020. “Oversight of Working Conditions for Airline Ground Workers.” Testimony to the House Aviation Subcommittee. January 15.

2019. “A Brief History of Worker Displacement.” With Mark Paul. Data for Progress. December 10.

2018. “The Franchise Business Model Harms Workers and Franchisees.” Washington Center for Equitable Growth. December 13.

2016. “A Just Transition for Fossil Fuel Workers.” With Robert Pollin. The American Prospect, 27(3): 88-93.

2014. “Maximizing Shareholder Value is (Literally) Killing Us.” The Center for Popular Economics, November 10.

2014. “Should Young Workers Pass on Pensions and Fight for Social Security?” The Center for Popular Economics, February 24.