COURAGE, TRUTH & BOOTY:

The Betrayal in the People’s Department Inside the battle that redefined the Republican party’s relationship with corporate power, and a secretive struggle at the Department of Justice that one insider called a “coup.” It began, as so many stories do in Washington, with a deal. A very big deal. But the real story wasn’t about the mega-merger itself, a transaction that would reshape an industry and test the very definition of monopoly power. The real story was about a promise. It was a promise made by a new, disruptive political force that had ridden into town on a wave of populist anger, vowing to challenge the cozy consensus that had governed Washington for decades—the one that always seemed to benefit the powerful at the expense of the ordinary citizen. This new force had a name—Trumpism—and it had found an unlikely home in, of all places, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. For years, the division had been the domain of a specific breed of conservative: market-purist, li...