Publications
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rep. David Cicilline, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison joined two dozen law enforcers, journalists, and analysts to address policy solutions in “After Google & Facebook: The Future of Journalism & Democracy.”
Read MoreSandeep 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.
Read MoreDaniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute presents our stance on the ever-controversial Section 230 in The Reboot.
Read MoreExecutive Director Barry Lynn commends the president’s decision to nominate Khan, a former legal director at Open Markets Institute, to serve on the FTC.
Read MoreBarry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, provides testimony at the “Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century: The Case for Antitrust Reform” hearing for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, chaired by Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Read MoreGroups and scholars join to file brief supporting players in their fight against the NCAA cartel.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute’s legal director, Sandeep Vaheesan, submits written testimony lauding Connecticut’s SB 906 – An Act Concerning Non-Compete Agreements and encouraging the state to strengthen its action against non-competes by enacting a full ban.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute responds to the Biden administration’s directive for a 100-day review of the country’s supply chain.
Read MoreSandeep Vaheesan of Open Markets Institute writes in The Atlantic with Robert H. Lande of University of Baltimore School of Law about how a simple ban on all mega-mergers would stop the U.S. government from rubber-stamping corporate consolidation.
Read MoreSandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, writes in Bloomberg Law that President Joe Biden has the chance to make good on his past statements condemning the use of noncompete clauses for American workers by making good appointments to the Federal Trade Commission.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and six other writers associations representing thousands of book authors call on the Justice Department to move immediately to block the private conglomerate, Bertelsmann, from buying the book publisher, Simon & Schuster.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute and a diverse set of environmental, family farm, farm policy and rural community organizations sent a letter to the White House requesting an executive order to enact a moratorium on mergers and acquisitions in the food and agricultural industries.
Read MoreDaniel 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.
Read MoreBarry C. Lynn responds to Zach Carter’s review on Liberty From All Masters’.
Read MoreOpen 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.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute sent two letters signed by more than 100 organizations and scholars to President-elect Joe Biden urging him to appoint FTC commissioners committed to outlawing noncompete clauses and exclusionary contracting.
Read MoreClaire Kelloway, senior reporter and researcher at the Open Markets Institute, writes in The Intercept about why Tom Vilsack is such a bad choice for Secretary of Agriculture.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute releases a statement saying: The U.S. v. Facebook complaint is a critical step toward ending the corporation’s dangerous control over the flow of information and stopping its monopolistic pattern of buying, copying, or killing competitors.
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