The End of Retail

Open Markets Institute research associate, Garphil Julien, writes in The American Prospect about how Amazon, private equity, and real estate conglomerates are doing what discounters like Walmart did in the 1970s to the retail industry.

CNN - Forget bias, the real danger is Big Tech's overwhelming control over speech

Open Markets Institute Director of Enforcement Strategy, Sally Hubbard, writes in CNN about how in order to deconcentrate Big Tech’s control over speech, we must dismantle the platforms’ business models, enforce antitrust laws, and push for legislative reform.

Washington Monthly - Starving the News

Policy director Phillip Longman contributes this piece in a series on how to rescue and revitalize journalism.

Op-EdsPhil LongmanOctober 25, 2020Phil Longman, Law, Antitrust Law, 2022, June 2022, Politics

Newsweek - The Justice Department Should Pursue a Breakup of Google's Monopoly

Open Markets Institute policy analyst, Daniel Hanley, urges the Department of Justice to honor the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust’s Big Tech recommendations and breakup Google. This piece was originally published in Newsweek.

LPE Project - The Functional Logic of Antitrust: Oligarchy vs. Democracy

Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, writes in The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project about how the present rules of antitrust law do not protect consumer welfare but instead promote oligarchy.

ProMarket - What the US Economy Could Look Like if Digital Markets Were Open and Competitive

Open Markets Institute Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard publishes a piece in ProMarket based on her testimony before the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee on October 1, 2020 in support of stopping Big Tech monopolies.

Slate - What the Next President Can Do About Big Tech’s Power

Open Markets Institute legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes in Slate about how the Biden administration could crack down on Google, Apple, and other companies’ use of exclusionary contracts to kneecap competitors.

Washington Monthly - The FCC Has Untapped Powers. The Next Administration Needs to Use Them

Open Markets Institute policy analyst Daniel Hanley writes about the increasing importance to revitalize dormant policies within the Federal Communications Commission, calling for a reinvigorated effort at restructuring consolidated telecommunications markets.

The American Prospect - Universal Broadband, Now More Than Ever

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.

Wired - America Can Still Achieve Its Techno-Utopian Dream

In Wired, Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, advocates for further regulation of the monopolistic powers within Silicon Valley by considering antitrust legislation from U.S. and Great Britain’s past.

‘You’re Cornered if You’re a City.’ How Concentration in the Municipal Bond Market Is Raising Borrowing Costs

Open Markets Institute research associate, Garphil Julien, addresses a longstanding structural problem—a group of the nation’s biggest banks that has cornered the market for municipal bond underwriting in Barron’s.

Op-Eds, ArticlesOpen MarketsSeptember 22, 20202020, Antitrust Law, Democracy and Ideology, September 2020, Garphil Julien

The Appeal - How Antitrust Perpetuates Structural Racism

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.

Milking Profits - The Dairy Monopolies That Are Hurting Farmers

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.

Op-EdsClaire KellowaySeptember 14, 20202020, Secondary Feature, Claire Kelloway, Food & Agriculture, September 2020

Wired - Ad Mergers Won't Save Journalism. Strict Merger Rules Would

Open Markets Institute policy analyst, Daniel Hanley, calls for federally enacted bright-line rules ahead of the abandoned merger between leading recommendation engines Taboola and Outbrain in Wired.

Washington Monthly - Another Trump Legacy: Spreading Price Discrimination on the Internet

Daniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute writes in Washington Monthly about the significance of President Trump’s reversal of net neutrality.

Op-EdsDaniel HanleyJuly 30, 2020Daniel Hanley, Antitrust Law, 2020, Competition Law & Philosophy, July 2020

ProMarket - Fixing Facebook Would Take More Than Collective Action

Daniel Hanley, senior legal analyst, writes about large corporations refusing to advertise on Facebook in order to boycott their unfair Market Power in the technology industry.

Democracy Journal - Imagining a Democratic Amazon

Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an article in Democracy Journal highlighting how Amazon has built on it’s existing dominance as an online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic through retaliation against worker’s yearning for better worker conditions.

CNN Business - Doctors, Nurses and Patients Could Suffer if Congress Doesn't Outlaw These Contracts

Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an article in CNN Business about health professional and their maltreatment and harmful working conditions of having the appropriate protective equipment, as well as their punishments for speaking out, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Op-EdsSandeep VaheesanJuly 6, 20202020, Sandeep Vaheesan, July 2020, Secondary Feature

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