Publications
Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries, an expert brief by Food Systems manager Claire Kelloway, shares how policymakers at all levels of government can hold food corporations to account and foster fair grocery markets that provide affordable and readily available food for everyone.
Read MoreTwo months after bending to a White House demand to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! from its network, Nexstar Media Group is asking the Trump administration to approve an illegal $6.2 billion merger that would grant it control over TV stations reaching more than half the country. Dr. Courtney Radsch released a statement condemning the merger.
Read MoreCJL Director Dr. Courtney C. Radsch issued a statement regarding a Spanish court ordering Meta to compensate digital media outlets for illegal use of their data, setting important precedent in the EU.
Read MoreLegal director Sandeep Vaheesan argues that breaking up the control seven obscure regional transmission organizations exercise over huge parts of the country’s electrical grid would help lower exploding electricity costs.
Read MoreTransportation analyst Arnav Rao argues that the MSC–BlackRock port takeover would dangerously consolidate global shipping, undermining U.S. security and supply chain resilience rather than protecting it.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute Policy Counsel Tara Pincock released a statement on the misguided ruling on the FTC’s case regarding Meta’s monopoly in social media.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore how a deal by shipping giant MSC and BlackRock to buy dozens of port terminals from a Hong Kong-based operator will concentrate international trade in the hands of a single foreign corporation and threaten national security, despite the U.S. asset manager’s involvement.
Read MoreOpen Markets welcomes the European Commission’s three market investigations on cloud computing services under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in State of Ohio v. Google, urging the Fifth District Court of Appeals of Ohio to recognize the state’s authority to designate Google Search as a common carrier—just as courts and legislatures have long done for railroads, telegraphs, telephones, and other corporations that hold themselves out to serve the public.
Read MoreIn a statement from Max von Thun, Open Markets condemns Google’s insufficient remedies, proposed in the EU, regarding its conflicts of interests in the adtech stack.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief led by Policy Counsel Tara Pincock, Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan, and Jamie Crooks of Fairmark Partners defending Congress’s authority under the Constitution to restrict the President’s ability to remove officials at executive agencies and departments. The brief argues that Congress, under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, has broad powers to structure the federal government and ensure that the execution of the law remains independent from direct presidential control.
Read MoreReporter Austin Ahlman writes on profiling the Democratic candidates in a competitive race for Nebraska’s Second Congressional District.
Read MoreDr. Courtney C. Radsch, Director of the Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets Institute issued a statement regarding the European Commission’s investigation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into anticompetitive conduct by Google, which appears to be using its monopoly control of search and visibility to discriminate against news publishers.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute transportation analyst Arnav Rao released a statement urging the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to halt confirmation proceedings for the President’s Surface Transportation Board nominees.
Read MoreIn this issue, we conclude that Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors whose pirated works were used to train its AI model will fail to deter the AI industry’s abusive practices.
Read MoreEileen Pomeroy argues that while the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement offers limited compensation to authors, it fails to address broader copyright abuses in AI training—and highlights the urgent need for the news industry to organize collectively for fair remuneration.
Read MorePolicy director Phillip Longman co-authored an article for outlining what’s needed to preserve Social Security, which faces insolvency in less than a decade, and to make the program more equitable for future recipients.
Read MoreTransportation analyst Arnav Rao argues that Donald Trump’s promise to revive U.S. shipbuilding has unraveled amid leadership failures, bureaucratic dysfunction, and neglect of the nation’s maritime industrial base—leaving America’s shipyards weaker and less prepared for economic and national security challenges.
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