Ron Knox's groundbreaking Wired article, about the monopolization of record labels, streaming services, and concert venues, struck quite a chord.
Stacy Mitchell joined the “How to Citizen with Baratunde” podcast to talk about how she became an antimonopolist, as well as America’s history fighting monopolies.
Mary Timmel was the Small Business and Consumer Organizer for ILSR’s Independent Business initiative.
The monopolization of record labels, streaming, and live venues is making it impossible for the broad “middle class” of artists to reach listeners.
Stacy Mitchell joined SiriusXM's Tell Me Everything to talk about small businesses as critical allies with labor in the fight to check concentrated corporate power.
We lay out 24 policy recommendations across a 6-point agenda to enable independent businesses to weather the pandemic and thrive and grow in its aftermath.
Stacy Mitchell and Susan R. Holmberg argue that the left should embrace small business again; it is crucial to reversing inequality and rescuing democracy.
Stacy Mitchell talks to Strong Towns about how corporate power is concentrating during the pandemic, and possibilities for a congressional break up of big tech.
In the Washington Post, Senior Researcher Ron Knox explains Congress's groundbreaking investigative report in terms of U.S. antitrust history.
ILSR legal fellow Shaoul Sussman argues in the American Prospect that we must prioritize revoking the liability shield monopolizing big tech platforms enjoy.
Stacy Mitchell joined an online discussion about the critical role policy plays for small businesses – especially given the confluence of factors in 2020.
Ron Knox explains that the beer industry is not a craft brewery utopia. Misguided policies have allowed monopolies to dominate the market, undermining small breweries.
Stacy Mitchell talks to Canadian national radio about understanding Amazon’s structural power and its consequences, and about growing momentum in Congress to do something.
ILSR Legal Fellow Shaoul Sussman and co-author Hal Singer discredit the idea that all businesses behave like Amazon.
We are thrilled to announce that Kennedy Smith will be joining ILSR in March! Kennedy is one of the nation’s foremost experts on commercial district...