Greg Sanders

Greg Sanders is the Senior Correspondent for Corporate Power & Antitrust at Just Right News, where he examines how concentrated economic power shapes everyday American life. From Big Tech gatekeeping to hospital mergers and private equity roll-ups, he follows the incentives, the paperwork, and the people affected. At a conservative newsroom grounded in free markets and limited government, Sanders’ reporting is driven by a simple premise: competitive capitalism only works when rules are clear, favoritism is checked, and no private or public titan can tilt the field without scrutiny. A Colorado native, Sanders grew up in Denver with a front-row view of Western self-reliance and small enterprise. He saw how ranchers, energy hands, and garage innovators all wrestled with the same problem in different language—who sets the terms of trade. That experience left him wary of both bureaucratic edicts and corporate muscle that crowd out upstarts. He began his career covering business and local governance in the Mountain West, learning to chase paper trails as avidly as he chases quotes. The culture of property rights, personal responsibility, and skepticism of one-size-fits-all mandates still guides his eye for what’s fair, what’s efficient, and what’s simply political gloss. Now based in Chicago, Sanders reports from the crossroads of American commerce. The Midwest’s blend of manufacturing, freight, agriculture, and health care offers him a living laboratory for antitrust and competition policy. He splits time between boardrooms and loading docks, courthouse dockets and county seats—listening to machinists in the industrial belt, shopkeepers in collar suburbs, and farmers negotiating with processors. Chicago’s role as a corporate headquarters hub and logistics nerve center lets him test national narratives against supply-chain realities, pricing data, and the lived experience of people who build and move things. Sanders’ signature series, The Titans and the Toll, maps how consolidation reshapes markets—and what that means for families, workers, and communities. He pairs on-the-ground interviews with filings at the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general actions, SEC disclosures, and civil court records. His questions are consistent: Who benefits? Who pays? Where do risks reside? He distinguishes between punishing success and policing genuine monopoly behavior, drawing a line between dynamic competition and cozy arrangements that privatize gains while socializing costs. Equally skeptical of Washington regulators picking winners and of Silicon Valley platforms setting quasi-law, he is attentive to the modern alliances of convenience—corporate lobbying for protective regulation, public pressure on platforms, and financial engineering that extracts value without creating it. Over two decades, Sanders has reported through the dot-com boom, the telecom and airline consolidation waves, the rise of ad-tech walled gardens, and the spread of hospital and pharmacy giants. His work reflects a conservative commitment to rule of law and dispersed power: markets thrive when contracts mean something, arbiters are neutral, and the little guy has recourse. Whether he is parsing a merger model or walking a warehouse floor, Greg Sanders brings clarity, curiosity, and a Midwestern plainspokenness to the question that animates all his coverage—how to keep opportunity open in an age of giants.