NYT: To Take Down Big Tech, They First Need to Reinvent the Law

The New York Times' David Streitfeld writes that big tech’s power has regulators and scholars, such as those of Open Markets, trying to reverse years of established doctrine. He also describes how anti-monopoly reformers are in ascendance and speaks with Open Markets' Executive Director Barry Lynn about anti-monopoly law and its history.

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Must Big Beget Big? Why Monopolization Is Not the Answer to Monopolization

Last Thursday, the Justice Department (DOJ) sued to prevent printing giant Quad from acquiring its main competitor, LSC Communications. The $1.4 billion deal between “the two most significant magazine, catalog, and book printers in the United States,” the DOJ’s Antitrust Division wrote in its complaint, “threatens to increase prices, reduce quality, and limit availability of printed material that millions of Americans rely on to receive and disseminate information and ideas.”

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Business Insider: The coming antitrust fights are an existential battle over how to protect capitalism

Open Markets senior fellow Matt Stoller talks to Business Insider's Linette Lopez about the latest round of hearings by the House Antitrust Subcommittee. Lopez highlights that for the first time in a generation, Washington is questioning what it means to protect American Capitalism. "There's an increasingly powerful bipartisan view of anti-trust," Stoller told her.

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Bloomberg: Tech's Biggest Antitrust Problem May Be a Congressman from Rhode Island

Bloomberg's Joshua Brustein profiles Rep. David Cicilline, Chairman of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, and speaks to Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about the official congressional antitrust inquiry scrutinizing big tech corporations and how it "provides a channel for uncovering so much material" that makes clear antitrust enforcement is necessary.

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