CJL program manager Karina Montoya takes stock of Google’s YouTube TV growth in live TV streaming, and what its clashes with TV programmers mean as Big Tech continues to be an unregulated actor in streaming services.
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CJL director Courtney Radsch argues that today’s AI systems—shaped by market concentration, surveillance-based business models, and weak regulation—are evolving into an infrastructure of cognitive control that threatens freedom of thought, human agency, and democracy unless firm legal, structural, and human-rights–based constraints are imposed.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman writes about how the Supreme Court’s likely overturning of Humphrey’s Executor could end agency independence and transform regulators like the FTC into direct instruments of presidential power.
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Industrial Policy Program Manager Audrey Stienon writes that Europe’s landmark Green Deal is being weakened under pressure from Trump’s tariff threats and rising far-right influence, jeopardizing the EU’s climate ambitions and democratic sovereignty.
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Transportation analyst Arnav Rao argues that the MSC–BlackRock port takeover would dangerously consolidate global shipping, undermining U.S. security and supply chain resilience rather than protecting it.
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Eileen Pomeroy argues that while the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement offers limited compensation to authors, it fails to address broader copyright abuses in AI training—and highlights the urgent need for the news industry to organize collectively for fair remuneration.
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Policy director Phil Longman gives a riveting argument about how America can save Social Security and strengthen retirement security by making the system fairer—taxing the wealthy more, expanding benefits for working- and middle-class Americans, and addressing decades of policy failures that fueled inequality.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya argues that U.S. courts must take strong structural action—not just behavioral fixes—to dismantle Google’s illegal monopoly over digital advertising. She contends that forcing divestitures of Google’s ad exchange (AdX) and ad server (DFP) is both technically feasible and necessary to restore competition, empower publishers, and prevent Google from continuing to manipulate the ad market through its control of key algorithms and data systems.
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EU tech policy fellow George Colville argues that the AI industry's growing energy demands are unfairly driving up electricity prices for ordinary Americans, with tech giants leveraging their power to shift the cost burden onto taxpayers and households instead of bearing it themselves.
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Cheif economist Brian Callaci exclaims how that banning non-compete clauses is essential for protecting worker freedom, boosting the economy, and countering corporate coercion, even as federal support wavers
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CJL intern Megha Nagaram examines how RealPage, the target of a series of lawsuits for its algorithmic rent-setting software, has begun weaponizing the First Amendment to fend off moves to ban its software, most recently in Berkeley, California.
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In July, Tongsang, the South Korean trade magazines, featured an interview with Audrey Stienon, OMI’s industrial policy program manager, as part of the cover story on digital trade. The following is the full text of that interview.
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In Out of Many, One, a new anthology from American Futures spotlighting the thinkers shaping tomorrow’s democracy, Barry Lynn offers a deeply historical and philosophical argument: the battle against monopoly and autocracy is not just economic or political—it is also moral and even spiritual.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan has published a book review of Brett Christophers’ book The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya argues that Microsoft’s move to consolidate control over search data, AI, and cloud services by shutting down Bing Search APIs and tying access to Azure risks stifling competition and entrenching its dominance in the AI and search markets.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan’s article in The George Washington Law Review argues that reviving the principle of nondomination in antitrust law is essential to curbing corporate coercion and empowering workers.
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Policy counsel Tara Pincock discusses how Michigan is suing pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics for an alleged price-fixing scheme that drove up drug costs, closed pharmacies, and gave ESI near-total market control in the state.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci discusses the Abundance Agenda’s faith in deregulation and private capital is misguided, and that achieving true prosperity requires robust public investment, labor protections, and democratic control over economic decision-making.
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