Four years ago, as a student at Yale Law School, Lina Khan wrote an article on the supposed evils of Amazon, the ubiquitous and consumer-friendly online retailer.
Today, at only 32, she is running the Federal Trade Commission, one of the most important US agencies that regulates tech.
Since becoming attorney general for the District of Columbia in 2015, Karl Racine seemed more interested in lefty social-justice issues including supposed fixes to the juvenile-justice system than regulating corporate behemoths.
Then in May, he sued Amazon over alleged antitrust violations, seeking among other remedies so-called “structural relief,” which is a legalistic way of saying he wants to break up one of America’s most successful companies.