Lina Khan published an op-ed in the New York Times explaining how the Ohio v. American Express Supreme Court case could shield tech corporations like Amazon, Google, and Facebook from antitrust scrutiny.
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Tim Wu, Open Markets advisory board member, writes in the New York Times about how an emphasis on consumer convenience can foster monopoly and homogeneity.
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Kevin Carty published an article in the New York Post explaining how big tech's monopolistic rule is hiding in plain sight.
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Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglas published an article in Washington Monthly explaining how corporate-run agricultural co-ops are squeezing the very farmers they’re supposed to protect. The depressed state of rural America is getting a fresh look as a result of the 2016 election, and rightly so. People are asking how to bring back rural prosperity and restore small-town civic life.
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Open Markets Institute Advisory Board Member Roger McNamee published an article in Washington Monthly explaining why the social media platform’s business model is such a threat and what to do about it.
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The Open Markets Institute's work documenting the effects of corporate concentration was featured in Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Phil Longman published an article in Democracy Journal about the need for antitrust enforcement to curb consolidation in the healthcare sector.
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Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder
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How the legal profession became Wall Street’s helpmeet
It’s time for the Democratic leader to step aside.
Phil Longman reports in the Washington Monthly about how the real healthcare crisis involves monopolies.
In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
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Can users of what is essentially privatized social infrastructure really log off?
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Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglas reviews Philip Howard's "Concentration and Power in the Food System" in the Washington Monthly. His slim book which poses a simple question: who controls what we eat? Four companies decide what meat you eat, two choose what milk you buy, and soon only one will determine what beer you drink. Are we all fine with that?
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The credit reporting debate we should be having.
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Ten old/new ideas to give power back to the people.
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In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
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Monopoly is back: Barry Lynn on the concentration of American economic power — and how we can restore fairness
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