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Lina Khan

American antitrust scholar and former FTC chair

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Rose to prominence with a paper on Amazon’s market power, then as chair of the Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2025 challenged mergers and big tech’s dominance.

Lina Khan sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and slightly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly tech-cautious on technology and leaning progressive on culture.

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Where Lina Khan sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-cautious
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Lina Khan

Tristan Harris Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology99%Yoshua Bengio Canadian computer scientist98%Geoffrey Hinton British-Canadian computer scientist98%Elizabeth Warren US Senator from Massachusetts, 2013 to present98%Jaron Lanier American computer scientist and tech critic97%Thomas Piketty French economist97%Shoshana Zuboff American scholar and author97%Bruce Springsteen American singer-songwriter96%

People furthest from Lina Khan

Jair Bolsonaro President of Brazil, 2019 to 202213%Donald Trump US President, 2017 to 2021 and 2025 to present13%Abelardo de la Espriella President of Colombia, 2026 to present15%Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 194315%

Political views closest to Lina Khan

LabourismDraws on trade unions and working-class communities to win better wages, rights and…95%Modern monetary theoryArgues that governments issuing their own currency can spend to reach full employment,…94%CooperativismPrefers businesses owned and run by workers, consumers or local communities.93%Social democracyKeeps a market economy but adds strong public services, unions and progressive taxes to…93%

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