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Report - Taming the Hyperscalers
Reports & White Papers
Report - Taming the Hyperscalers
Reports & White Papers

The Open Markets Institute published a blueprint for Europe’s transition towards an open, competitive, and sovereign cloud market, co-authored by Europe director Max von Thun and EU tech policy fellow George Colville.

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Reports & White Papers
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NYBR - Building the Electrostate
Articles
NYBR - Building the Electrostate
Articles

Open Markets legal director Sandeep Vaheesan makes a case for expanding public ownership in the U.S. electric power sector, arguing it‘s the best way to secure affordable energy and decarbonization.

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Articles
The Corner Newsletter: Next Railroad Crisis? And Sandeep Vaheesan’s Electric Essay (March 10th, 2026)
Newsletters
The Corner Newsletter: Next Railroad Crisis? And Sandeep Vaheesan’s Electric Essay (March 10th, 2026)
Newsletters

In this issue, we explore the sobering lessons of the last big railroad merger to evaluate the proposal to merge Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.

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OMI Reacts to Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Deal & Trump’s Apparent Interference
Statements, Press Releases
OMI Reacts to Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Deal & Trump’s Apparent Interference
Statements, Press Releases

Dr. Courtney Radsch, director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets released the following statement concerning the news that Netflix has dropped its bid for Warner Brothers Discovery and by default, enabled Paramount to advance its own offer.

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What We Do

research • policy • advocacy

Shining a light on monopoly power and its dangers to democracy.

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The Sling - Union-Busting as an Unfair Method of Competition
Sandeep Vaheesan
The Sling - Union-Busting as an Unfair Method of Competition
Sandeep Vaheesan

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan speaks on how union-busting should be treated as an illegal monopolistic practice under antitrust law because it gives firms an unfair competitive advantage by violating workers’ rights and undermining law-abiding rivals

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Sandeep Vaheesan
Project Syndicate - Europe Should Reject US-Style Competitiveness
Open Markets
Project Syndicate - Europe Should Reject US-Style Competitiveness
Open Markets

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan emphasizes that Europe doesn’t need to copy America’s model to be competitive; it should double down on strong competition policy to avoid the economic imbalances and harms baked into the US approach.

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Open Markets
Washington Monthly - How to Bring Down Grocery Prices
Claire Kelloway
Washington Monthly - How to Bring Down Grocery Prices
Claire Kelloway

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.

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Claire Kelloway
 

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Publications
The Corner Newsletter: Next Railroad Crisis? And Sandeep Vaheesan’s Electric Essay (March 10th, 2026)
The Corner Newsletter: Next Railroad Crisis? And Sandeep Vaheesan’s Electric Essay (March 10th, 2026)

In this issue, we explore the sobering lessons of the last big railroad merger to evaluate the proposal to merge Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.

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The Corner Newsletter: Google’s Proprietary AI Chips and a Playbook for Stopping Private Equity (February 24th, 2026)
The Corner Newsletter: Google’s Proprietary AI Chips and a Playbook for Stopping Private Equity (February 24th, 2026)

In this issue, we explore how Google’s proprietary AI chips will do little to dent Nvidia’s monopoly over the industry. We also released a new playbook to help state policymakers stop the encroachment of private equity into child care..

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The Corner Newsletter: OpenAI’s RAMpage (February 10th, 2026)
The Corner Newsletter: OpenAI’s RAMpage (February 10th, 2026)

In this issue, we explore the legal and economic impact of OpenAI’s deals to lock up supply of memory chips.

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Featured
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
Innovation beyond Big Tech
Innovation beyond Big Tech
Featured
More Perfect Union - How One Mega Merger Could Raise Prices On Everything
More Perfect Union - How One Mega Merger Could Raise Prices On Everything
IBA - Protecting democracy
IBA - Protecting democracy
 

EXCLUSIVE REPORT

Stopping big tech
from becoming big ai

With AI rapidly becoming a cornerstone of the global economy, our report with Mozilla warns that society stands at a critical crossroads: One path leads to a future where AI is controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, threatening innovation, consumer privacy, individual liberty and democracy. The other path, the report advocates, leads to a diverse and competitive market where AI is developed by a wide range of participants – public, private, and non-profit – and serves the broader public interest. 

 
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What They’re Saying

Testimonials

“A tiny nonprofit that’s becoming a lightning rod for growing anger and frustration with Big Tech in America.”

-Quartz

“Open Markets is doing revolutionary and essential work when monopoly looms over American life.”

- VICE

“The Open Markets group led by Lynn contains many of the most respected voices in an increasingly prominent discussion about technology and telecom monopolies, and its findings about corporate consolidation and monopolistic power have been extremely influential in turning antitrust into an important policy issue.”

- New York Magazine

“There have been few think tank teams as effective as Barry Lynn’s [and the Open Market Institute’s].”

- The Atlantic

“The whole idea of a think tank is to cultivate ideas that have an actual impact on The Debate. Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute] has done that better than anyone.”

- Chris Hayes, MSNBC

“The past couple of years have seen a resurgence of political interest in antitrust policy, which is increasingly seen as a potential solution to America’s current dilemma of high corporate profits and slow economic growth…It’s fair to say that the primary intellectual mover behind all of this has been Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute].”

- Vox

“It's difficult to overstate Mr. Lynn’s [and Open Market Institute’s] influence in raising concerns about the market dominance of Google, as well as other tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook.”

- The New York Times

 

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