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Establishing a regulatory framework around Amazon that does not address the ability of Amazon to use its power to influence the government would quite possibly take us the way of Dr. Frankenstein. The government’s place is not to run this market but rather to protect the people in it.

In 15 years on the bench, Chief Justice John Roberts has managed to gradually strike at the heart of the last century of American jurisprudence and rescue the 19th century court.

Through all the happiness around Biden’s electoral win, Americans have to realize Trump’s presidency reveals a deeper division among Americans that Biden simply won’t be able to fix.

Nowhere in this story does Amazon enhance consumer welfare; it neither offers a better product to consumers nor a better service to other merchants. The company takes the data it gets from the small businesses it hosts and weaponizes that data against them.

In 1962, human rights activist Malcolm X expressed the plight of being a Black woman as that of the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected American. 58 years later, the same sentiments unfortunately remain all too familiar.

In today’s political climate, when allegiance to party trumps allegiance to oath, the long-term effect of increasing the number of justices to the Supreme Court is foreseeable: a political tit-for-tat will, inevitably, ensue.

Thus, by refusing a peaceful transition of power and favoring partisan rhetoric over political unity, President Trump not only flouts a cornerstone of American democracy, but also threatens to initiate a period of intense post-election partisanship.