This year will be remembered for at least five very high-profile trials, each offering a window on a different part of American life. We will discuss them all today and tomorrow. To be frank, there is a little bit of duplication. Two of them are antitrust cases. But they are very distinct examples thereof and, to reduce any sense of overlap, we will begin today with one of the antitrust matters and end tomorrow with the other. 1. Apple v. Department of Justice In March of this year, DoJ antitrust enforcers will make their case that Apple has imposed both hardware and software limits on their iPads and iPhones to make life difficult for competitors. The messaging service Beeper, the bluetooth tracker concern Life360 Inc, and Spotify Technology are all alleged to have been victimized by Apple's hardball. The defendant company hasn't had much to say about this, aside from very general assertions that it doesn't hold a monopoly in any market...