As the White House announces its Big-Tech-first AI Action Plan, Open Markets contributes to call to prioritize a People’s AI Action Plan instead.
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In this issue, we explore how America’s largest utility, NextEra, used a range of hardball tactics to block a big clean energy project in New England.
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In Out of Many, One, a new anthology from American Futures spotlighting the thinkers shaping tomorrow’s democracy, Barry Lynn offers a deeply historical and philosophical argument: the battle against monopoly and autocracy is not just economic or political—it is also moral and even spiritual.
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Max von Thun applauds a new report on tech algorithms and misinformation from the UK Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan has published a book review of Brett Christophers’ book The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci co-authors a piece arguing that while rent control is effective at stabilizing rents and preventing displacement, it must be paired with increased housing supply, zoning reform, and public investment to meaningfully address the housing crisis.
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The Open Markets Institute condemns the FCC for abusing its regulatory power to dismantle diversity programs and silence press freedom, calling it a dangerous politicization of antitrust authority.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway contributes to the debate that rural economic decline is not inevitable but the result of policy failures—particularly weakened antitrust enforcement—and calls for state-level action to restore competition through right-to-repair laws, fair grocery pricing, and stronger healthcare merger reviews.
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CJL Director Courtney Radsch explains how Cloudflare's new policy to block AI crawlers by default and introduce a monetized marketplace for AI access marks a significant shift in web infrastructure, offering publishers more control and compensation but also raising concerns about the centralization of power and potential market dominance by Cloudflare.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute released a statement on the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s provisional decision to grant Google ‘strategic market status’ and its proposal for possible interventions to restore competition in search.
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The Open Markets Institute warns that the European Commission's Cloud and AI Development Act will fail to achieve its goals unless it directly addresses the dominance of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in the cloud computing market, advocating for regulatory reforms to ensure fair competition and digital sovereignty in Europe.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya argues that Microsoft’s move to consolidate control over search data, AI, and cloud services by shutting down Bing Search APIs and tying access to Azure risks stifling competition and entrenching its dominance in the AI and search markets.
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In this issue, we look at how Microsoft is exploiting its control over Bing search data to force adoption of its cloud services and AI systems.
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Transportation analyst Arnav Rao argues that restoring the Jones Act and enforcing antitrust laws are essential to reviving American shipbuilding and reducing dependence on foreign shipping cartels .
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan’s article in The George Washington Law Review argues that reviving the principle of nondomination in antitrust law is essential to curbing corporate coercion and empowering workers.
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In this issue, we celebrate OMI’s own Claire Kelloway for receiving a James Beard Award for her reporting and examine how a case against two pharmacy benefit managers in Michigan could have implications for the industry nationwide.
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Policy counsel Tara Pincock discusses how Michigan is suing pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics for an alleged price-fixing scheme that drove up drug costs, closed pharmacies, and gave ESI near-total market control in the state.
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The Open Markets Institute proudly celebrates Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway who was awarded a James Beard Foundation Media Award for her incisive reporting for the Food & Environment Reporting Network in their “Farm Bill Fight” series published in Mother Jones.
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