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In three weeks, Americans are about to vote for change in a midterm election. It will be the seventh straight election that they have done so, even though nothing seems to make any difference. A few weeks after casting their votes, they will experience the high costs and frustrations of travel, as they head on Thanksgiving and then Christmas holiday. Travel isn’t why people a...

Lots of news, as usual. AI continues to dominate much of the political discourse, in part because spending on things like data centers has exploded while spending on everything else we need, from housing to education to manufacturing, has declined. Meanwhile, the Pope continues to deliver hot takes, reminding us there are hugely significant moral questions underlying the poli...

This issue of BIG is co-authored by Emma Freer, senior fellow for health care at the American Economic Liberties Project, and an anonymous insider who can’t give his name due to a fear of retaliation.

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The Paramount-Warner combination, now named Skydance, closed yesterday, and began trading on the stock market. And now comes the hard part for CEO David Ellison, which is creating a successful media company with $79 billion of debt and declining linear cable networks providing most of the cash flow. Will it be a viable business? That’s what I’m going to explore. Whether it wo...

Welcome to the Monopoly Round-Up. I’m Lee Hepner, an antitrust attorney filling in for Matt while he’s out on paternity leave.

One of the things you realize pretty quickly when putting together these weekly round-ups is just how much news happens in a given week. In the past seven days, we’ve seen significant developments in the restructuring of major industrie...