Slate - What the Next President Can Do About Big Tech’s Power

Open Markets Institute legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes in Slate about how the Biden administration could crack down on Google, Apple, and other companies’ use of exclusionary contracts to kneecap competitors.

Washington Monthly - The FCC Has Untapped Powers. The Next Administration Needs to Use Them

Open Markets Institute policy analyst Daniel Hanley writes about the increasing importance to revitalize dormant policies within the Federal Communications Commission, calling for a reinvigorated effort at restructuring consolidated telecommunications markets.

The American Prospect - Universal Broadband, Now More Than Ever

Open Markets Institute policy analyst, Daniel A. Hanley, argues that broadband access is an essential utility that everyone should have access to in The Prospect.

Wired - America Can Still Achieve Its Techno-Utopian Dream

In Wired, Barry Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, advocates for further regulation of the monopolistic powers within Silicon Valley by considering antitrust legislation from U.S. and Great Britain’s past.

‘You’re Cornered if You’re a City.’ How Concentration in the Municipal Bond Market Is Raising Borrowing Costs

Open Markets Institute research associate, Garphil Julien, addresses a longstanding structural problem—a group of the nation’s biggest banks that has cornered the market for municipal bond underwriting in Barron’s.

Op-Eds, ArticlesOpen MarketsSeptember 22, 20202020, Antitrust Law, Democracy and Ideology, September 2020, Garphil Julien

The Appeal - How Antitrust Perpetuates Structural Racism

Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, writes about how antitrust, presently interpreted and applied, maintains the corporate domination of people of color on The Appeal.

Milking Profits - The Dairy Monopolies That Are Hurting Farmers

Open Markets reporter and senior researcher Claire Kelloway writes in The Washington Monthly about how dairy cooperatives, originally meant to let farmers join forces to get a good price for their milk and stand up to powerful interests, now often squeeze the farmers that ostensibly own them.

Op-EdsClaire KellowaySeptember 14, 20202020, Secondary Feature, Claire Kelloway, Food & Agriculture, September 2020

Wired - Ad Mergers Won't Save Journalism. Strict Merger Rules Would

Open Markets Institute policy analyst, Daniel Hanley, calls for federally enacted bright-line rules ahead of the abandoned merger between leading recommendation engines Taboola and Outbrain in Wired.

Washington Monthly - Another Trump Legacy: Spreading Price Discrimination on the Internet

Daniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute writes in Washington Monthly about the significance of President Trump’s reversal of net neutrality.

Op-EdsDaniel HanleyJuly 30, 2020Daniel Hanley, Antitrust Law, 2020, Competition Law & Philosophy, July 2020

ProMarket - Fixing Facebook Would Take More Than Collective Action

Daniel Hanley, senior legal analyst, writes about large corporations refusing to advertise on Facebook in order to boycott their unfair Market Power in the technology industry.

Democracy Journal - Imagining a Democratic Amazon

Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an article in Democracy Journal highlighting how Amazon has built on it’s existing dominance as an online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic through retaliation against worker’s yearning for better worker conditions.

CNN Business - Doctors, Nurses and Patients Could Suffer if Congress Doesn't Outlaw These Contracts

Open Markets Institute Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an article in CNN Business about health professional and their maltreatment and harmful working conditions of having the appropriate protective equipment, as well as their punishments for speaking out, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Op-EdsSandeep VaheesanJuly 6, 20202020, Sandeep Vaheesan, July 2020, Secondary Feature

The pandemic is setting off a wave of mergers. And that’s a problem.

Open Markets Managing Editor, Michael Bluhm, released an article on LinkedIn emphasizing the heightened level of emerging M&A deals, particularly between Big Tech firms, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bluhm details the dangers and negative consequences brought on workers, wages, and small businesses in result of such consolidation.

Challenging the NCAA Cartel: When Consumer Welfare Equals Worker Exploitation

Open Markets Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an op-ed in Harvard Law Review on June 9, 2020, discussing the need to overcome the most recent antitrust suit brought about in NCAA college basketball in the Ninth Circuit court.

Op-EdsSandeep VaheesanJune 9, 20202020, Sandeep Vaheesan, June 2020, Antitrust Law, Racial Equity

If one of us gets sick, we all get sick': the food workers on the coronavirus front line

Open Markets' Fellow Mya Frazier writes about the grueling labor conditions faced by female workers in poultry plants. Frazier's article details widespread labor violations in the chicken processing industry.

Op-EdsOpen MarketsApril 17, 20202020, April 2020, Food & Agriculture

Washington Monthly - When Environmentalists Won Over the Supreme Court

Open Markets strategic counselor Caroline Fredrickson references a book, The Rule of Five, by Richard J. Lazarus when analyzing recent decisions made by the Supreme Court focusing on environmental protections.

ProMarket: Allowing Digital Platforms to Continue Picking the Winners and Losers of Our Economy Is Un-American

OMI director of enforcement strategy Sally Hubbard published an article on ProMarket, deconstructing the manner in which Tech Giants utilize their “platform privilege” to give preferential treatment to their own products and services.

Barron's: Antitrust Authorities Have Been Busy. The Public Needs to Get Involved Too.

OMI legal director Sandeep Vaheesan published an article in Barron’s, reinforcing Congress’ power to enact legislation and regulations that will prohibit monopolistic behaviors in the marketplace.

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