Open Markets strategic counselor Caroline Fredrickson shines a light on the undercutting of many laws protecting the voting rights of citizens by the Supreme Court.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci draws points on the real reason’s that Amazon can put forth such monumental product output: the exploitation of workers beyond limitation.
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Research associate Garphil Julien illustrates how Moscow’s control of supply chains—particularly the fertilizer industry—could stymie America’s efforts to punish Putin for his war on Ukraine.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and chief economist Brian Callaci discuss how lawmakers can address concentration and monopolization by enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan addresses the increased harm non-compete clauses are causing to workers and the need for the FTC to ban them.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway discusses how to use antitrust to reign in corporate recklessness and create long-term food supply chain resiliency.
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Senior Legal Analyst Daniel Hanley discusses how the existing contractual legal regime allows corporations to further exploit workers—and how public policy can change that.
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Jody Brannon, director of Open Markets’ Center for Journalism and Liberty, articulates some optimistic expectations for journalism in 2022: more institutions will build on efforts to protect democracy.
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Daniel Hanley, senior legal analyst at Open Markets, co-writes with Chris Hicks, Senior Policy Advisor at Student Borrower Protection Center, about how employers are increasingly using predatory student debt to trap workers in jobs.
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Research associate Garphil Julien articulates how Wall Street financiers bent on short-term profits are largely responsible for America’s shortage of semiconductors and other key materials.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley writes about how federal agencies have an opportunity to take immediate action against climate change using anti-monopoly policy.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci reviews Eric A. Posner’s book, How Antitrust Failed Workers, asserting that while he expertly lays out how antitrust can do better by workers, his view is too narrow.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director, argues that the Federal Trade Commission should use its expansive “unfair methods of competition” authority to codify and strengthen existing norms of fair competition under the Sherman Act.
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley details how congressionally delegated powers can prohibit specific corporate conduct to require more publicly acceptable business practices.
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Luke Goldstein, reporter and researcher, writes about how billionaire tycoons are seizing control over America’s public satellite systems.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan describes the important difference between promoting fair competition versus just promoting competition.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes in the Japanese news outlet, The Nikkei, about the limits of competition policy and law as it currently stands, and how to improve it.
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Nikki Usher, senior fellow at the Center for Journalism & Liberty, writes about how public media is vulnerable to growing political interference over its operations, especially with higher education at the crossroads of the culture war.