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The Corner Newsletter: Trump’s Risky Port Deal (November, 18, 2025)
Newsletters
The Corner Newsletter: Trump’s Risky Port Deal (November, 18, 2025)
Newsletters

In 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.

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New Expert Brief - Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries
Reports & White Papers, Press Releases
New Expert Brief - Creating Fair Food Markets for Affordable Groceries
Reports & White Papers, Press Releases

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.

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After Cutting Kimmel, Nexstar Asks Trump to Greenlight Illegal Merger
Press Releases, Statements
After Cutting Kimmel, Nexstar Asks Trump to Greenlight Illegal Merger
Press Releases, Statements

Two 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.

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Spanish Court Orders Meta to Compensate Digital Media Outlets
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Spanish Court Orders Meta to Compensate Digital Media Outlets
Press Releases, Statements

CJL 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.

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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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The New Republic - How to Lower Energy Costs: Break Up the Electrical-Grid Cabal
Open Markets
The New Republic - How to Lower Energy Costs: Break Up the Electrical-Grid Cabal
Open Markets

Legal 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.

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Washington Monthly - Trump Promised a Shipbuilding Boom. He’s Sinking It Instead
Open Markets
Washington Monthly - Trump Promised a Shipbuilding Boom. He’s Sinking It Instead
Open Markets

Transportation 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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Washington Monthly - The Cory Doctorow Doctrine
Open Markets
Washington Monthly - The Cory Doctorow Doctrine
Open Markets

Editorial director Anita Jain discusses Cory Doctorow’s concept of “enshittification” reveals how Big Tech deliberately worsens its products to maximize profit and control.

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Newsletters

Publications
The Corner Newsletter: Trump’s Risky Port Deal (November, 18, 2025)
The Corner Newsletter: Trump’s Risky Port Deal (November, 18, 2025)

In 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.

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The Corner Newsletter: OMI’s Op-ed with Alvaro Bedoya and Anthropic’s Author Deal (November 4th, 2025)
The Corner Newsletter: OMI’s Op-ed with Alvaro Bedoya and Anthropic’s Author Deal (November 4th, 2025)

In 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.

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The Corner Newsletter: OMI’s Democracy Conference in Brussels & Google’s ad tech remedies trial (October 21st, 2025)
The Corner Newsletter: OMI’s Democracy Conference in Brussels & Google’s ad tech remedies trial (October 21st, 2025)

In this issue, we recap our 2-day Future of Democracy conference in Brussels and analyze the recently concluded remedies trial for Google’s monopoly over digital advertising.

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The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
Innovation beyond Big Tech
Innovation beyond Big Tech
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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

Stopping big tech
from becoming big ai

With AI rapidly becoming a cornerstone of the global economy, our report with Mozilla warns that society stands at a critical crossroads: One path leads to a future where AI is controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, threatening innovation, consumer privacy, individual liberty and democracy. The other path, the report advocates, leads to a diverse and competitive market where AI is developed by a wide range of participants – public, private, and non-profit – and serves the broader public interest. 

 
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What They’re Saying

Testimonials

“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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