Reporter Austin Ahlman writes on Maine Senate candidate David Platner, who is positioning himself as part of a new wave of populists.
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The Open Markets Institute and the Revolving Door Project released a comprehensive joint report on the policy underpinnings of the so-called “abundance agenda,” an economic agenda popularized by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in their recent book Abundance.
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Reporter Aushin Ahlman wrote on Iowa state House representative J.D. Scholten’s ending of his campaign to represent Iowa in the U.S. Senate, which “follows a push from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, or DSCC, to recruit and clear the field for fellow state House member Josh Turek.”
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Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley is arguing that courts and enforcers must use structural remedies—like breakups and divestitures—against monopolists such as Google, emphasizing that history, law, and precedent require judges to impose sweeping reforms to restore competition and democratic accountability.
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The Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets, alongside Public Knowledge and Rebuild Local News, submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) urging them to strengthen their initial proposed remedies to break Google’s monopoly over advertising technologies (ad tech), a digital market that intermediates ad sales mainly between news publishers and advertisers on the open web.
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