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2025-11-16T21:17:45+00:00

Using the mighty power of government tomake stadium hot dogs cheaper? It's one of many ways Khan's petty populism could be coming to New York City. Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.14.2025 10:20 AM Lina Khan has quickly thrown water on any hopes that she might be a benign force on New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team. The former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair suggested in a recent interview that she's looking to make sure Mamdani can "unilaterally deploy" ample power as mayor. Khan is "exploring ways to maximizeMamdani's executive authority through little-used laws already in place," as Bloomberg put it. "Exploring ways to maximize executive authority" is a scary enough phrase no matter who the executive in question is. But it's got a particularly chilling ring when applied to Mandami, a Democratic Socialist who has said there's no problem too minor for the government to get involved in, and Khan, who spearheaded some of the Biden administration's worst efforts to disrupt free markets with heavy-handed government intervention, repeatedly tested the limits of FTC power, and attempted to do through an executive agency things that should have been left to Congress. SNIP* "I'm gonna be especially focused on things like 'how do we make sure that we have a full accounting of all of the laws and authorities that the mayor can unilaterally deploy?'" Khan said in the interview, which was taped last week but won't air in full until November 23. She went on to talk about how her time at the FTC taught her there were "unused and underused" powers that she could wield, and she wanted to find out the full extent of authority that would be possible for Mandami as mayor. https://reason.com/2025/11/14/how-lina-khan-is-busy-striving-to-maximize-mamdanis-power/

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from Reason.com? DBoon Nov 2025 #1

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Sun Nov 16, 2025, 05:24 PM

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Notorious right wing libertarian publication?

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2. Its good to be aware of what they think.

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Sun Nov 16, 2025, 05:26 PM

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Lina Khan is a force for good, she may change some minds.