Check out our “Eyes Everywhere” two-part report series illustrating the dangers of Amazon’s worker surveillance, Amazon’s competitor and consumer surveillance, and the solutions available here→
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CJL research and reporting intern Ray Garcia delves into Steven Waldman’s latest proposal, called “A Replanting Strategy,” to save legacy newspapers cornered by predatory hedge funds and chains.
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This report, “Beggars and Choosers: How Google and Facebook compromise media independence with their corporate donations,” considers the contradictory behavior of Google and Facebook toward journalism
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Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, encourages you to check out his new book Liberty from All Masters.
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Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn releases, “Liberty from All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People” as the House prepares for another hearing on Big Tech’s antitrust abuses. Lynn details how to protect our liberty and control Big Tech’s power with the laws we already have.
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Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, remembers Ted Halstead, founder of New America.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we examine the dangerous — and somewhat desperate — the strategy behind the recent spate of acquisitions by shopping mall landlords. And we introduce our new report on agricultural cooperatives and how to restore this traditional form of joint ownership by farmers and other workers.
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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 Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, interviews Frank Pasquale about his forthcoming book, New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI on Law and Political Economy Project.
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The Center for Journalism & Liberty and the Open Markets Institute host a webinar featuring Steven Waldman in conversation with advocates and experts about saving local journalism.
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Open Markets reporter and senior researcher Claire Kelloway writes in The Washington Monthly about how dairy cooperatives, originally meant to let farmers join forces to get a good price for their milk and stand up to powerful interests, now often squeeze the farmers that ostensibly own them.
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Open Markets Institute released a new report revealing how many farmer co-ops have subverted anti-monopoly measures and grown into monopolies that prey upon their members. The report, called “Redeeming the Democratic Promise of Agricultural Cooperatives,” proposes a set of reforms and increased antitrust enforcement that could rebalance agricultural markets to serve the public interest again.
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This Open Markets Institute report, “Redeeming the Democratic Promise of Agricultural Cooperatives,” highlights the vulnerability that farmers, as well as the agriculture industry as a whole, have to ever-expanding monopolistic corporations.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we introduce our new report on Amazon, which reveals how the corporation built a surveillance infrastructure to monitor its workers’ every move, and we announce the Oct. 27 publication of Monopolies Suck, the new book by Open Markets Director of Enforcement Sally Hubbard.
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