In this issue, we look at our conference detailing Facebook’s attacks on the free press, featuring a keynote by Senator Klobuchar. And we explore California’s subsidized manufacture of insulin.
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Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway released a statement regarding the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the meat industry data company Agri Stats.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan published an article on how the political economic significance of the Inflation Reduction Act is still being vigorously debated—is it more neoliberalism or something different and better? Vaheesan draws on the history of the Hoover Dam to offer a progressive scenario: The IRA as a major boost to cooperative and publicly owned electric utilities.
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The Open Markets Institute collaborated on a report with Kiki Louya, offering a deep dive into the case study of Premium Peanut.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley analyzes the ways in which antitrust enforcement plays a role in the structure of fair market competition.
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Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement in reaction to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announcing its long-awaited suit against Amazon’s monopoly power and abuse.
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Open Markets’ years of actions and scholarship on Amazon’s monopoly power.
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Director of Europe & transatlantic partnerships Max von Thun writes on the opportunity for the UK Liberal Democrats to position themselves as the party serious about taking on concentrated economic power.
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Director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty, Dr. Courtney Radsch co-authored an opinion piece arguing that philanthropy needs to stop being reactive and instead take a proactive ecosystem approach to fighting misinformation.
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The Open Markets Institute and partners including SEIU, Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA), Public Citizen, and more, submit a comment urging the Justice Department (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to strengthen and clarify the new, draft merger guidelines.
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Georgetown Law Professor and Open Markets Institute scholar Caroline Fredrickson published "What I Most Regret About My Decades of Legal Activism," in The Atlantic, revealing how the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe and other abridgments of civil liberties are in many ways a direct result of a failure to sufficiently understand and oppose conservative assaults on political economy law and enforcement.
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Editorial director Anita Jain offers an insightful read on the stances made by Sohrab Ahmari, condemning unfettered corporate power and embracing the New Deal in his new book.
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In this issue, we look at how the FCC’s new Democratic majority could act to rein in Big Tech, and at Musk’s misuse of Starlink.
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Director of Europe & transatlantic partnerships Max von Thun gives updates on the developments of the Digital Markets Act as the EC provides further regulator conditions against Big Tech.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci urge the DOJ and FTC to go further in limiting corporate mergers for the American economy’s benefit.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute released a statement to underline the deep concerns about the public’s lack of access to US v Google, a trial on the illegality of Google’s monopolization over online search and search advertising.
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Senior Reporter Karina Montoya provides insight on points to be aware of as the DOJ kicks off its first ever antitrust litigation against Google.
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