Report by Detroit-based Chef Kiki Louya & Open Markets Examines How Peanut Farmer Cooperatives Are Taking on “Big Shell”

A new report by chef Kiki Louya, published by the Open Markets Institute, examines the peanut industry, where farmer-owned cooperatives like Premium Peanut have seen great success taking on the giant shelling monopolies, and explores how other farmers might use cooperatives to circumvent monopolists.

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Boston Globe - It’s Past Time to Throw Out Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan discusses antitrust exceptions in baseball, which permits baseball to collude against minor-league players and cap their salaries at poverty levels, while arbitrarily denying teams to cities and towns. The article furthers the potential overturning of this clause by the Supreme Court.

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Democracy Journal - The IRA Is Still Being Formed

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan published an article on how the political economic significance of the Inflation Reduction Act is still being vigorously debated—is it more neoliberalism or something different and better? Vaheesan draws on the history of the Hoover Dam to offer a progressive scenario: The IRA as a major boost to cooperative and publicly owned electric utilities.

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Philanthropy - Fighting Online Lies and Deception Requires Large-Scale Philanthropic Response

Director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty, Dr. Courtney Radsch co-authored an opinion piece arguing that philanthropy needs to stop being reactive and instead take a proactive ecosystem approach to fighting misinformation.

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