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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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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Transportation analyst Arnav Rao discusses findings from his recent report on ocean shipping, arguing that decades of deregulation and foreign dependence have crippled U.S. maritime capacity—and calls for restoring regulated competition and public investment to revive it.
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CJL submitted a comment letter urging the FTC to address how dominant tech platforms suppress journalism through systemic, opaque, and retaliatory practices.
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The Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute released a statement from its director, Dr. Courtney Radsch on the California Assembly’s passage of AB 412, the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
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Food systems program manager Claire Kelloway explores how the recent rise in egg prices is driven not just by factors like bird flu, but also by corporate greedflation and the price of conventional eggs is affected due to both the bird flu and potential corporate collusion manipulating the market.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya argues that dismantling Google’s search monopoly requires structural changes, such as divesting Chrome which would break its interdependencies with Android, and implementing public oversight on its AI investments, to restore competition and prevent further market entrenchment.
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Open Markets Institute’s Europe Director Max von Thun, in collaboration with partners European Policy Centre and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, has published a policy briefing urging European Union leaders to strengthen their resolve in tackling Big Tech despite increasing pressure from the new Trump administration and US tech billionaires.
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In a submission to the UK Intellectual Property Office's consultation on copyright and artificial intelligence, groups call for the urgent implementation of an opt-in protocol for AI training data collection to protect creators' rights and compel technology companies to respect these rights through fair compensation.
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Open Markets Institute Transportation Policy Analyst Arnav Rao comments on a USTR investigation that finds China uses monopoly practices to dominate the maritime industry.
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Open Markets Institute food program manager Claire Kelloway comments on the USDA’s finalized rule against deceptive poultry payment tactics and withdrew a proposed rule easing access to justice for unfair treatment by meatpackers.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan writes on the potential rescue to come to small businesses if Kamala Harris wins the upcoming election, shifting the cooperation of the FTC towards independent corporations.
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Open Markets and civil society partners urge the European Commission to take decisive action against Google’s dominance in the digital advertising sector in order to restore balance and protect the news media and democracy.
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In this issue, Open Markets policy counsel Tara Pincock — who helped write the original lawsuit against Google — discusses a potential breakup.
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In this issue, we explore how Intel’s recent woes suggest that Biden administration’s CHIPS and Science Act was insufficient and recommend how the next administration must go further in investing in semiconductor manufacturing to protect the country’s national interest.
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Karina Montoya shares five takeaways from the initial weeks of the Google ad tech monopoly trial in Tech Policy Press.
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As the EU's competition enforcer Margrethe Vestager prepares to step down, Max von Thun writes in the Financial Times that the incoming chief Teresa Ribera must take up the mantle to shape markets in the public interest.
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In this issue, we report from the Virginia courthouse where the DOJ is laying out its case against Google for monopolization of ad tech. And we look at Europe’s fascinating debate on how to rebuild its economy.
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