Food program manager Claire Kelloway comparing New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed city-run grocery stores to government-run grocery stores for the military.
In this issue, we explore Google’s growing power in the television industry, as the tech giant uses YouTube T V to squeeze major TV programmers like Fox and Disney.
CJL director Courtney Radsch contends that both the Netflix and Paramount–Skydance bids for Warner Bros. Discovery would deepen media concentration in ways that endanger free speech, audience choice, and democracy by placing cultural storytelling and news under the control of conglomerates willing to bend to political pressure.
Europe research fellow Claire Lavin co-wrote an article arguing that Google’s proposed $32 billion acquisition of Wiz would dangerously concentrate control over Europe’s cloud security infrastructure in the hands of a U.S. tech gatekeeper, threatening competition, data governance, and digital sovereignty—and must be rigorously investigated and potentially blocked by EU regulators.