The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court, urging the Court to address Merck’s alleged misrepresentations to the Food and Drug Administration to extend its monopoly in the mumps vaccine market.
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Transportation analyst Arnav Rao writes that Union Pacific’s proposed merger with Norfolk Southern would dangerously consolidate the U.S. freight rail industry—threatening service reliability, competition, and the nation’s economic resilience under the guise of efficiency.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute joined with 15 leading press freedom groups, civil liberties organizations and labor unions to urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to move forward with plans to loosen media ownership limits.
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CJL intern Megha Nagaram examines how RealPage, the target of a series of lawsuits for its algorithmic rent-setting software, has begun weaponizing the First Amendment to fend off moves to ban its software, most recently in Berkeley, California.
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In this issue, we examine how RealPage, the target of a series of lawsuits for its algorithmic rent-setting software, has begun weaponizing the First Amendment to fend off moves to ban its software, most recently in Berkeley, California.
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In July, Tongsang, the South Korean trade magazines, featured an interview with Audrey Stienon, OMI’s industrial policy program manager, as part of the cover story on digital trade. The following is the full text of that interview.
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The Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals warning that Intuitive Surgical is exploiting its monopoly over surgical robots to dominate markets for essential accessories—posing serious risks to hospitals, doctors, and patients.
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Executive director Barry Lynn released a statement on the Federal Communications Commission’s 2-1 vote to approve Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount.
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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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