In this issue, we explore Sen. Klobuchar’s bill to bolster the Tunney Act following a series of weak antitrust settlements that were driven by President Trump’s cozy relationships with corporations.
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In this issue, we explore how last week’s jury verdict against Ticketmaster marks a win for both democracy and for consumers.
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Open Markets' Europe director, Max von Thun, and industrial policy program manager, Audrey Stienon, discuss in Competition Policy International's TechREG Chronicle how AI policy narratives framed around the goal of "winning" a global race threaten to undermine the democratic values that this technology is supposed to help defend. Instead, von Thun and Stienon present a vision for an industrial strategy for AI centered on democratic governance as a means of protecting the public interest.
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In this issue, we explore how the Administration’s new H1-B visa policy favors dominant tech monopolies and how Sen. Murphy’s Fair Prices Act favor’s free enterprise
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Transportation analyst Arnav Rao argues that repeated global supply chain shocks now intensified by maritime disruptions expose the failure of U.S. policy to balance efficiency with resilience, underscoring the need for long-term public investment and antimonopoly industrial strategy in shipbuilding.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan explains that despite weakening federal antitrust leadership, enforcement can continue through state attorneys general and private actors, underscoring that the broader antimonopoly movement does not depend solely on the executive branch.
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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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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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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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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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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief led by Policy Counsel Tara Pincock, Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan, and Jamie Crooks of Fairmark Partners defending Congress’s authority under the Constitution to restrict the President’s ability to remove officials at executive agencies and departments. The brief argues that Congress, under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, has broad powers to structure the federal government and ensure that the execution of the law remains independent from direct presidential control.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman writes on profiling the Democratic candidates in a competitive race for Nebraska’s Second Congressional District.
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Policy director Phillip Longman co-authored an article for outlining what’s needed to preserve Social Security, which faces insolvency in less than a decade, and to make the program more equitable for future recipients.
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Transportation analyst Arnav Rao argues that Donald Trump’s promise to revive U.S. shipbuilding has unraveled amid leadership failures, bureaucratic dysfunction, and neglect of the nation’s maritime industrial base—leaving America’s shipyards weaker and less prepared for economic and national security challenges.
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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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CJL director Courtney Radsch argues that amid the failure to regulate its own tech firms, the U.S. must not be allowed to undermine European efforts to regain sovereignty over their information systems and resist domination by Big Tech.
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Industrial policy program manager Audrey Stienon offers the analysis on Trump’s trade coercion amplifying Big Tech’s long-standing use of trade policy to erode national sovereignty and entrenches corporate power over global digital regulation.
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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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