Publications
Senior legal analyst Daniel Hanley is arguing that courts and enforcers must use structural remedies—like breakups and divestitures—against monopolists such as Google, emphasizing that history, law, and precedent require judges to impose sweeping reforms to restore competition and democratic accountability.
Read MoreThe Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets, alongside Public Knowledge and Rebuild Local News, submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) urging them to strengthen their initial proposed remedies to break Google’s monopoly over advertising technologies (ad tech), a digital market that intermediates ad sales mainly between news publishers and advertisers on the open web.
Read MoreLegal Director Sandeep Vaheesan asserts that while antitrust wins against Big Tech are a step forward, the real battle lies in dismantling their invasive surveillance advertising model, which exploits our privacy and fuels societal harms.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreTransportation 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreCJL 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreExecutive director Barry Lynn released a statement on the Federal Communications Commission’s 2-1 vote to approve Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreMax von Thun applauds a new report on tech algorithms and misinformation from the UK Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan has published a book review of Brett Christophers’ book The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet.
Read MoreChief 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.
Read MoreThe 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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