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A Revival of Nondomination in Antitrust Law
Articles, Press Releases
A Revival of Nondomination in Antitrust Law
Articles, Press Releases

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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Articles, Press Releases
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Washington Monthly - How to Fix Our Dangerous Dependency on Foreign Ships and Save American Shipbuilding
Op-Eds
Washington Monthly - How to Fix Our Dangerous Dependency on Foreign Ships and Save American Shipbuilding
Op-Eds

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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Op-Eds
Claire Kelloway Wins James Beard Foundation Media Award for Reporting on the "Farm Bill Fight"
Press Releases
Claire Kelloway Wins James Beard Foundation Media Award for Reporting on the "Farm Bill Fight"
Press Releases

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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To Get Abundance, We Need to Discipline Capital
Articles
To Get Abundance, We Need to Discipline Capital
Articles

Chief economist Brian Callaci discusses the Abundance Agenda’s faith in deregulation and private capital is misguided, and that achieving true prosperity requires robust public investment, labor protections, and democratic control over economic decision-making.

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What We Do

research • policy • advocacy

Shining a light on monopoly power and its dangers to democracy.

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Publications
Washington Monthly - How to Fix Our Dangerous Dependency on Foreign Ships and Save American Shipbuilding
Open Markets
Washington Monthly - How to Fix Our Dangerous Dependency on Foreign Ships and Save American Shipbuilding
Open Markets

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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Open Markets
ProMarket - It’s Time To Imagine Chrome Without Google
Karina Montoya
ProMarket - It’s Time To Imagine Chrome Without Google
Karina Montoya

Senior reporter Karina Montoya reflects on the end of the remedies phase of the Department of Justice’s case against Google for monopolizing the online search market. She argues that Google’s warnings against divestiture of its browser, Chrome, fall short and that a breakup will benefit the security of the internet, innovation, and users.

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Karina Montoya
The Intercept - Corporate Pride Is Dying. Good.
Austin Ahlman
The Intercept - Corporate Pride Is Dying. Good.
Austin Ahlman

Reporter Austin Ahlman argues that while the corporate pullback from Pride events poses financial challenges, it also presents a chance to reclaim Pride from corporate co-optation and restore its radical, community-driven roots.

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Austin Ahlman
 

Newsletters

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The Corner Newsletter: James Beard Award & An Important PBM Case in Michigan ( June 20th, 2025)
The Corner Newsletter: James Beard Award & An Important PBM Case in Michigan ( June 20th, 2025)

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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The Corner Newsletter: Apple’s Chip Breakthrough and Our Groundbreaking Ocean Shipping Report ( June 06th, 2025)
The Corner Newsletter: Apple’s Chip Breakthrough and Our Groundbreaking Ocean Shipping Report ( June 06th, 2025)

In this issue, we spotlight our seminal report on how to fix America’s shipbuilding crisis, Charting a New Course: Steering U.S. Maritime Policy Towards Security and Prosperity. We also explore how Apple’s development of its own modem chip illustrates why we need more aggressive antitrust. And we link to two new articles, that detail how liberal democrats can retake power and rebuild a democratic republic.

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The Corner Newsletter: Copyright Protections and Critiquing the Abundance Agenda ( May 23rd, 2025)
The Corner Newsletter: Copyright Protections and Critiquing the Abundance Agenda ( May 23rd, 2025)

In this issue, we explore how copyright protections, currently under threat from the Trump administration, stand as a bulwark against Big Tech‘s use of copyrighted material to turbocharge AI growth.

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Innovation beyond Big Tech
Innovation beyond Big Tech
WEBINAR: Engineering the Cloud Commons: Tackling Monopoly Control of Critical Digital Infrastructure
WEBINAR: Engineering the Cloud Commons: Tackling Monopoly Control of Critical Digital Infrastructure
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IBA - Protecting democracy
IBA - Protecting democracy
Democracy Maine - Let's Talk About Digital Threats to Democracy
Democracy Maine - Let's Talk About Digital Threats to Democracy
 
 

Exclusive Report Series

AMAZON’S PERVASIVE SURVEILLANCE

Amazon is a surveillance corporation, first and foremost. Surveillance of all parties—from workers to competitors to consumers—is a fundamental aspect of the corporation’s operations. It uses invasive surveillance tactics to enable and facilitate its predatory conduct and fortify its monopoly power. Our “Eyes Everywhere” two-part report series, illustrates the dangers of Amazon’s worker surveillance, Amazon’s competitor and consumer surveillance, and the solutions available.

 
 
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“A tiny nonprofit that’s becoming a lightning rod for growing anger and frustration with Big Tech in America.”

-Quartz

“Open Markets is doing revolutionary and essential work when monopoly looms over American life.”

- VICE

“The Open Markets group led by Lynn contains many of the most respected voices in an increasingly prominent discussion about technology and telecom monopolies, and its findings about corporate consolidation and monopolistic power have been extremely influential in turning antitrust into an important policy issue.”

- New York Magazine

“There have been few think tank teams as effective as Barry Lynn’s [and the Open Market Institute’s].”

- The Atlantic

“The whole idea of a think tank is to cultivate ideas that have an actual impact on The Debate. Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute] has done that better than anyone.”

- Chris Hayes, MSNBC

“The past couple of years have seen a resurgence of political interest in antitrust policy, which is increasingly seen as a potential solution to America’s current dilemma of high corporate profits and slow economic growth…It’s fair to say that the primary intellectual mover behind all of this has been Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute].”

- Vox

“It's difficult to overstate Mr. Lynn’s [and Open Market Institute’s] influence in raising concerns about the market dominance of Google, as well as other tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook.”

- The New York Times

 

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