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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Policy director Phil Longman warns that unchecked Big Tech and AI monopolies are rapidly undermining the economic foundations of a free press and urges urgent public support for policy-focused journalism, like the Washington Monthly, as essential to preserving democracy and meaningful freedom of speech.
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Barry Lynn condemns travel bans on five European citizens on the theory that their efforts to regulate the behavior of dominant online communications platforms amounted to censorship of American citizens.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan co-authors a report examining why Maine's "Pine Tree Power" initiative failed despite broad support for public ownership, offering strategic lessons on how advocates can overcome corporate spending and messaging to win future public power campaigns.
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The Southern Justice Project is a major new initiative to study the economic, political, and social effects of corporate concentration and social control across the south. The project will be led by Evan Turnage, former Chief Counsel to Senate Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer and Senior Counsel to Senator Elizabeth Warren and a native of Jackson, Mississippi.
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Barry Lynn responded to news that Disney's ABC is indefinitely pulling down “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
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In this issue, we discuss President Trump’s “revocation” of President Biden’s Executive Order on Competition. And we describe how the fight to defend FTC’s 2024 ban on non-compete clauses has moved to the states.
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Executive director Barry Lynn released a statement on the Federal Communications Commission’s 2-1 vote to approve Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount.
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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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CJL director Courtney Radsch discussed on an IBA podcast how billionaires like Elon Musk are shaping public narratives on social media, warning of the threats to democracy and the need to protect independent journalism.
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In a powerful essay published in The Washington Monthly, Barry Lynn calls on Democrats to chart a bold new course by recovering the foundational American language of liberty, shared power, and economic democracy — the very principles that once made the Democratic Party a champion of the working class and protector of the republic.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan publishes a major review critiquing Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson for promoting deregulation as a primary solution to societal challenges like housing shortages and the transition to renewable energy.
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CJL Director Courtney Radsch was featured in Goodbot’s Common Sense Tech Policy series, where she unpacks how Meta’s news ban in Canada exposes the dangers of letting tech giants control access to essential journalism.
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Open Markets criticized a House Energy and Commerce Committee draft budget reconciliation provision that would give Big Tech a “democracy-free decade” for artificial intelligence.
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Executive director Barry Lynn responded to recent remarks from Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division Gail Slater that focused on how the Justice Department under President Trump intends to enforce America’s antitrust laws and promote fair competition.
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CJL director Courtney Radsch contends that Google’s recent legal violations demonstrate its monopolistic abuse of power, and calls for the company to be broken up to restore fair competition and accountability.
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Open Markets and the Center for Journalism and Liberty respond to a U.S. court ruling that Google maintains a monopoly over digital advertising markets.
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Europe and Transatlantic Partnerships Director Max von Thun penned an op-ed with former MEP Marietje Schaake on what has become a critical moment for European policy towards Big Tech - and how Europe can seize it.
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