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January 26, 2024 — As alarming recent safety incidents shine a spotlight on the dangers of a deregulated airline industry—atop longstanding discontent with shrinking seat sizes, bogus fees, chronic delays and cancellations, and route closures—the American Economic Liberties Project and Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator today released a new report, “How to Fix Flying: A New Approach to Regulating the Airline Industry,” providing a comprehensive set of policy options to address the ongoing crisis.

January 25, 2024 — In response to news that the Federal Trade Commission has launched a 6(b) study to investigate Big Tech’s partnerships and investments in artificial intelligence, with orders for information sent to Microsoft, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

January 24, 2024 — The American Economic Liberties Project, along with a group of distinguished academics, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case, NetChoice v. Paxton, arguing that the Court should refuse to extend heightened First Amendment protections to social media platforms that hold themselves out as modern-day public squares.

January 23, 2024 — At an Economic Liberties event today, the #BreakUpTicketmaster Coalition, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and a group of academics and advocates, renewed emphatic calls on the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division to restore competition to the live events and break Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s power over the industry. 

January 22, 2024 — Today, Farm Action and the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP), joined by 16 other organizations, sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ), calling on the agencies to investigate “and, if evidence warrants, to take action against” Koch Industries’ planned acquisition of OCI Global’s Iowa Fertilizer Company (IFCO).