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

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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IBA - Protecting democracy
Videos & Audio, Clippings
IBA - Protecting democracy
Videos & Audio, Clippings

CJL director Courtney Radsch discussed on an IBA podcast how billionaires like Elon Musk are shaping public narratives on social media, warning of the threats to democracy and the need to protect independent journalism.

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Videos & Audio, Clippings
Open Markets Leads Letter to FTC Chairman Ferguson: Defend Non-Compete Ban in Court
Testimony & Comment Letters, Press Releases
Open Markets Leads Letter to FTC Chairman Ferguson: Defend Non-Compete Ban in Court
Testimony & Comment Letters, Press Releases

The Open Markets Institute led a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson urging him to vigorously defend the agency’s 2024 rule banning non-compete clauses. The letter, signed by 16 other organizations including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Strategic Organizing Center, presents the statutory authority, historical precedent, and extensive economic evidence underpinning the rule. 

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Testimony & Comment Letters, Press Releases
European Commission Hits Fair Competition Milestone with Enforcements Against Delivery Companies
Press Releases, Statements
European Commission Hits Fair Competition Milestone with Enforcements Against Delivery Companies
Press Releases, Statements

Europe and Transatlantic Partnerships Director Max von Thun released a statement on historic actions for EU competition enforcement.

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Press Releases, Statements
 

What We Do

research • policy • advocacy

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

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The Atlantic - How America Lost Control of the Seas
Open Markets
The Atlantic - How America Lost Control of the Seas
Open Markets

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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Open Markets
Financial Times - Cloud computing is too important to be left to the Big Three
Max von Thun
Financial Times - Cloud computing is too important to be left to the Big Three
Max von Thun

Director of Europe and transatlantic partnerships Max von Thun argues that cloud computing has become essential public infrastructure, and calls for regulatory reforms to curb Big Tech’s dominance, ensure security, and protect the public interest.

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Max von Thun
Washington Monthly - How the Digital Age Changed Us
Open Markets
Washington Monthly - How the Digital Age Changed Us
Open Markets

Editorial director Anita Jain explores how two contrasting books—Searches by Vauhini Vara and Like by Bob Goodman and Martin Reeves—reveal different but revealing ways of understanding Big Tech's impact on society.

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Open Markets
 

Newsletters

Publications
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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The Corner Newsletter: Musk’s Monopoly on Space and OMI’s Kelloway a James Beard Finalist ( May 9th, 2025)
The Corner Newsletter: Musk’s Monopoly on Space and OMI’s Kelloway a James Beard Finalist ( May 9th, 2025)

In this issue, we celebrate OMI’s own Claire Kelloway for being named a finalist for a James Beard Award, explore how the Trump administration is helping Elon Musk’s Starlink to cement a monopoly on space, and welcome recent speeches by the DOJ’s Gail Slater and the FTC’s Mark Meador.

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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
 
 

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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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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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