Lina Khan

Fellow, Open Markets

Lina Khan is currently a fellow with the Open Markets initiative at New America. She was formerly a policy analyst for program, formerly known as the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, and researched the concentration of power in America’s political economy. She reported on agricultural, industrial, and financial markets, and the laws that shape them. She has written for The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and Salon, and appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and The Majority Report with Sam Seder.

Before joining New America, Lina reported on transparency legislation in India while on a journalism fellowship in Delhi. She graduated magna cum laude from Williams College, where she studied political theory and was editor of the Williams Record.

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Featured Publications

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in the news | January 16, 2015 | Open Markets

The age of Amazon is upon us: How one court battle reveals the growing threat of monopoly

Lina Khan

Today, given that the central players in the Internet economy are middlemen – platforms that connect buyers and sellers – pricing laws will determi...
in the news | January 07, 2015 | Open Markets

Has Israel's antitrust watchdog blocked Mideast peace?

Lina Khan

Lina Khan, a policy at the New America Foundation, published a Washington Post article in June entitled “How the United States became uncompetitive...
in the news | October 17, 2014 | Open Markets

What everyone’s getting wrong about Amazon

Lina Khan

Saying that Amazon’s monopoly over books doesn’t matter because it doesn’t also have a monopoly in televisions is like saying that John Rockefeller...
in the news | July 10, 2014 |

Thrown Out of Court

Lina Khan

Late last year a massive data hack at Target exposed as many as 110 million consumers around the country to identity theft and fraud. As details of...
in the news | June 19, 2014 |

A Hachette Job

Lina Khan

We could’ve seen this coming. Amazon, embroiled in protracted negotiations over new contract terms with the book publisher Hachette, is using its m...
in the news | June 13, 2014 |

How America became uncompetitive and unequal

Lina Khan Sandeep Vaheesan

Since the early 1980s, executives and financiers have consolidated control over dozens of industries across the U.S. economy. From cable companies ...
in the news | May 30, 2014 |

A Remedy for Amazon-Hachette Fight?

Lina Khan

Amazon only this week acknowledged the storm it raised earlier this month when it made it much harder for consumers to buy books by Hachette, a maj...
in the news | March 05, 2014 |

No Exit: The Digital Edition

Lina Khan

Privacy advocates say we should care about privacy because its erosion threatens liberty. "A human being who lives in a world in which he thinks he...
in the news | February 07, 2014 |

This Lawsuit Threatens To End Walmart's Exploitative Ways

Lina Khan

Last week President Obama urged businesses to “give America a raise.” But even if the minimum wage were raised, it wouldn’t necessarily help a huge...
in the news | January 19, 2014 |

Why You Might Pay More Than Your Neighbor for the Same Bottle of Salad Dressing

Lina Khan

Retailers don’t really talk about how to compete with Amazon—they talk about how to avoid being decimated by it. Up until now, companies have used ...
in the news | January 16, 2014 |

Personal Pricing, Like Really Personal

Lina Khan

The National Retail Federation held its annual convention in New York this week, drawing thousands of industry leaders keen to figure out how they’...
in the news | December 29, 2013 |

Monsanto’s Scary New Scheme

Why Does It Really Want All This Data?

Lina Khan

Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm where all the decisions about ...
in the news | November 12, 2013 |

The Rise of Big Chocolate

Lina Khan

It's an industry that's largely invisible to consumers, yet central to feeding the world's sweet tooth. Cocoa processing -- the process of turning ...
in the news | October 31, 2013 |

The Kings of Candyland

Lina Khan

Roaming the candy aisle of my neighborhood Safeway around Halloween is a dizzying encounter with choice. Towering stacks of sumptuous sweets gliste...
in the news | October 23, 2013 |

The Fed is About to Make Owning Physical Assets a Game All Banks Can Play

Lina Khan

Last week, Federal Reserve officials leaked to the Wall Street Journal their tentative plan to limit the ability of Goldman Sachs and big banks to ...
in the news | September 11, 2013 |

The Folks Who Sell Your Corn Flakes are Acting Like Goldman Sachs

And that should worry you.

Lina Khan

In July, the public learned that Goldman Sachs and several other large banks have morphed into giant merchants of physical goods, routinely shippin...
podcast | May 31, 2013 |

In The Tank: Bacon, China and the American Farmer

Christopher Leonard Fuzz Hogan Lina Khan

What does it mean when a Chinese company buys Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the U.S.? This podcast has all the answers. Chris Leon...
article | July 10, 2012 |

New Study Finds Declining Rates of Entrepreneurship

Lina Khan

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog post authored by Lina Khan, program associate with New America's Markets, Enterprise and Resiliency Initiative....