Recent Coverage

APR 1, 2026

The Verge: The Trump administration’s antitrust honeymoon is over.

Former Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, a Democrat who was fired by President Donald Trump last year, said he’s also not sure whether this administration was ever serious about going after Big Tech and monopolies generally. “I think some people were, but I don’t know,” he told The Verge on the sidelines of an event hosted by American Economic Liberties Project (AELP). “This is a very specific brand of governing that I think is very separate from what you’re seeing at the state level” Bedoya and Alford are among those who are now placing their hopes in state enforcers to carry the torch for aggressive antitrust enforcement. There’s reason to do so: while six states with Republican AGs settled alongside the DOJ, 34 AGs chose to continue litigating against Live Nation, including 13 Republicans. Several state AGs have committed to taking on other cases that federal enforcers have chosen not to, like the merger between media companies Nexstar and Tegna. Bedoya pointed to several Republican AGs he believes are carrying out aggressive antitrust enforcement, and said, “it’s really important to separate what’s happening with this administration, with people who call themselves Democrats and Republicans. This is a very specific brand of governing that I think is very separate from what you’re seeing at the state level.”

FEB 12, 2026

The Washington Post: Netflix backs out of Warner Bros. purchase, clearing the way for Paramount

Alvaro Bedoya, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission removed by Trump last year, said on social media Thursday night, “One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. … Block this rotten deal.”Bedoya and other critics pointed to events at CBS under Paramount’s new ownership — including spats with late-night host Stephen Colbert and a stalled airing of a “60 Minutes” segment on deportations to a megaprison in El Salvador — as a sign of a rightward shift they fear could affect news or entertainment programming under Ellison’s ownership.

FEB 12, 2026

The New Republic: What the Democrats Need to Do Now

This instinct is just not in the Democratic Party’s collective DNA. It needs to be. “The simple fact is that a lot of Democrats weren’t built for this environment. They weren’t built for a world where the opposition party president breaks essentially all the rules, breaks them with gusto, and gets clout from breaking the rules,” said Alvaro Bedoya, who served as a federal trade commissioner under Lina Khan and took on many fights against corporate wrongdoers. “And the sad fact is that right now, what you need are street fighters. You need people who relish conflict. You need people who know how to be creative with the power they have and can do something with it.

DEC 5, 2025

The Washington Post: Trump fired this federal regulator. She’s fighting him to the Supreme Court.

“It is not fun to take on the president of the United States, particularly in this environment,” Bedoya said. “It’s not fun to not know where your next paycheck will come from or if you will get a paycheck, period.”

OCT 15, 2025

The New Republic: How I Became a Populist

Looking at things that way, everyone I met was part of one huge group: people working themselves to the bone who were getting screwed by billionaires and corporations—regardless of party or state or race or ethnicity. Regardless, even, of whether they are workers or the owners of farms or small businesses.

Populism is not an indictment, but an opportunity. Focusing on the conflict between the haves and the have-nots is not divisive; it’s a way to build coalitions with astonishing potential.