Illinois professor Nikki Usher imagines an approach to local journalism—one built on authentic, viewpoint-driven reporting upheld by readers invested in the community. Read reviews and reactions.
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Sandeep Vaheesan of Open Markets Institute writes in The Washington Post about the NCAA’s Supreme Court case against football and basketball players over the antitrust aspects of player compensation.
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Read our full amici curiae brief in support of current and former college basketball and football players in their antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA.
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Groups and scholars join to file brief supporting players in their fight against the NCAA cartel.
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Daniel Hanley, policy analyst at the Open Markets Institute, and Beth Brodsky, former Louis Brandeis Law and Political Economy Fellow at the Open Markets Institute, write in Common Dreams showing that the FCC’s push to restructure America’s broadcast communication ownership would be a crushing blow to the already deficient levels of female and minority ownership in the broadcast industry.
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Open Markets Institute condemns racism and neo-fascism absolutely and demands that lawmakers and law enforcers move immediately to fix the socially destructive business models of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other essential platforms.
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Open Markets Institute policy analyst, Daniel A. Hanley, argues that broadband access is an essential utility that everyone should have access to in The Prospect.
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Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, writes about how antitrust, presently interpreted and applied, maintains the corporate domination of people of color on The Appeal.
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Open Markets Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an op-ed in Harvard Law Review on June 9, 2020, discussing the need to overcome the most recent antitrust suit brought about in NCAA college basketball in the Ninth Circuit court.
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"Senator Booker’s plan is long overdue," said Open Markets Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan. "The NCAA is, in effect, a cartel of employers robbing college athletes of fair, competitive wages, not dissimilar to how corporations in tech and other sectors have conspired to suppress their employees' salaries."
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In this issue, we highlight the powerful speeches of Sens. Booker, Capito, Warner, and SEC Commissioner Jackson at Open Markets' "Right to Compete" conference. And we remember the life and legacy of former FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky.
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In this piece on The Nation, Open Markets reporter Leah Douglas looks at an obscure legal loophole which has resulted in African Americans losing acres of land throughout the last century. Millions of farmers of all races were pushed off their land in the early part of the century, including around 600,000 black farmers. By 1975, just 45,000 black-owned farms remained.
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And what it means for American democracy.
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Buried in Steven Brill’s convoluted tome are important truths about how to reform our health care delivery system.
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A frenzy of hospital mergers could leave the typical American family spending 50 percent of its income on health care within ten years—and blaming the Democrats. The solution requires banning price discrimination by monopolistic hospitals.
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Phillip Longman, the senior editor of the Washington Monthly and the policy director of the Open Markets Institute, published this piece in the Washington Monthly.
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Open Markets Institute policy director Phillip Longman edited a groundbreaking special issue of the Washington Monthly on racial justice. View here, a selection of articles from that issue, which examined the origins of the racial wealth gap, especially its origins in policies that favored monopolies while denying opportunities to African Americans to build assets.
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