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.
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.
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.
In this issue, we explore how European countries have begun using competition law to protect workers, inspired in part by the U.S. FTC.
In this issue, we look at the new antimonopoly caucus in the House, and examine how monopoly and Wall Street power keeps Amtrak off track, denying better train service to Americans across the country.
In this issue, we explore underseas cables and who controls this critical infrastructure amid Meta’s proposal to build the world’s longest.
In this issue, we look at how the Trump DOJ’s pursuit of a Google breakup could help rewrite the rules of the internet and AI for the future.
In this issue, we take a look at the threat posed to local television news by the rise of internet-based live television platforms, especially as must-carry regulations haven’t caught up to the new streaming environment.
In this issue, we look at efforts by Big Tech and the Trump Administration to disrupt European democracy, and explore Amazon’s latest move to consolidate control over online retail and advertising.
In this issue, we discuss how Biden blocked Nippon Steel’s takeover of U.S. Steel. Now the Trump team has to figure out how to save the tottering corporation, and America’s broader steel industry.