The Legal Scholar Reshaping Big Tech

Lina Khan transformed American antitrust law by challenging the traditional focus on low consumer prices. Instead of only looking at grocery costs, she argues that monopoly power itself harms the economy and democracy.

Before she led the Federal Trade Commission, Khan was a young law student who gained sudden fame for her groundbreaking paper on Amazon. Her work questioned whether existing laws could handle companies that own both the marketplace and the products sold within it. She advocates for a more aggressive government approach to prevent tech giants from stifling competition. Her tenure sparked a global debate on how modern power is truly measured.