Publications
In a groundbreaking new legal paper, Sandeep Vaheesan argues that companies that systematically violate laws to undercut rivals are engaging in an unfair method of competition and that the FTC can and should take action. This includes Big AI copyright law violations.
Senior reporter Karina Montoya argues that the court’s behavioral remedies against Google’s ad tech monopoly offer some new protections for publishers and competitors, but fall short of the structural breakup needed to meaningfully dismantle Google’s market power.
Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan discusses how Federal judges clearly exposed Google's illegal, anti-competitive tactics in search and ad tech, yet failed catastrophically by refusing to dismantle the company's monopolies or strip away its economic weapons.
Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway and legal directoy Sandeep Vaheesan argue that America’s affordability crisis is driven by corporate pricing power, not overpaid workers, and call for stronger antitrust enforcement, public investment, and higher wages to rein in concentrated power.
CMDG director Courtney Radsch explains that courts are beginning to hold Meta, TikTok, and other platforms accountable for harmful design choices that allegedly prioritized engagement over child safety, challenging their ability to hide behind Section 230.
A century ago, the US power industry was dominated by sprawling, heavily indebted holding companies until their collapse forced the federal government to break them up. Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan explains how the pattern is repeating, with mega-mergers and buyouts advancing a debt-heavy business model at the expense of households and communities.
Open Markets legal director Sandeep Vaheesan argues that states should rebuild antitrust law with clear rules to curb corporate power.
Open Markets senior fellow Matt Scherer co-writes tothat the AI boom has become a debt-fueled speculative bubble that could trigger a broader financial crisis unless regulators strengthen safeguards, increase transparency, and commit to no AI bailouts.
CMDG director Courtney Radsch argues how policymakers must urgently regulate the AI industry before it replicates and supercharges "surveillance capitalism" business models that commercially exploit personal data and reward psychological manipulation
Editorial director Anita Jane argues that AI’s real danger is not superintelligence, but Big Tech’s inflated economics, concentrated power, and use of AI to turn workers and creators into tools serving machines rather than people.
