The Open Market Blog

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/12/2013

Follow CEI’s commentary on the president’s speech below.

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/11/2012

OPINION RICH LOWRY: "The beginning of the end for big labor" "Michigan is on the verge of passing the kind of “right…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/05/2012

OPINION KENNETH ROGOFF: "Innovation Crisis or Financial Crisis?" "Recently, a few writers, including internet entrepreneur Peter Thiel and…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/04/2012

OPINION DEREK THOMPSON: "If You Don't Watch Sports, TV Is a Huge Rip-Off (So, How Do We Fix It?)" "If you watch…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/03/2012

OPINION DAVID KRAVETS: "Internet Hangs in Balance as World Governments Meet in Secret" "There’s a lot of sky-is-falling doomsday predictions about the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/30/2012

OPINION VIRGINIA POSTREL: "A Free-Market Fix for the Copyright Racket" "While most of the punditocracy was chattering earlier this month about Mitt…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/29/2012

OPINION NATE SILVER: "In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns" "Companies like Google and Apple do not have their own…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/27/2012

OPINION SPENCER ACKERMAN: "Pentagon: A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You" "The Pentagon wants to make perfectly clear that…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/26/2012

OPINION PAUL HOWARD and STEPHEN PARENTE: "ObamaCare Faces the Implementation Iceberg" "Defenders of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/20/2012

OPINION DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH: "With Ethanol, Obama Ignores Common Sense" "Since being re-elected, in a triumph of political loyalty over consumer protection, President…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/20/2012

On November 15, CEI hosted a premiere party for “I, Pencil: The Movie,” our animated adaptation of Leonard E. Read’s essay. You can watch the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/19/2012

OPINION JORDAN BLOOM: "An Anti-IP Turn for the GOP? (UPDATE: RSC disowns and pulls the brief)" "A Republican Study Committee policy brief released…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/13/2012

OPINION NAOMI ROVNICK: "The Great Firewall of China looms higher around the Communist Party congress" "China’s biggest political event for a decade…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/05/2012

OPINION MIKE BOSTOCK and SHAN CARTER: "512 Paths to the White House" "If Mr. Romney loses Florida, he has only one way…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/01/2012

OPINION M.C.K.: "They Did Not Have to Be So Unfair" "On one side of the ledger, we see that the big banks…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/31/2012

OPINION THOMAS HAZLETT: "David Axelrod Is Right: The Buffett Rule Is a Cheap Shot" "The President, like Buffett (and Mitt Romney), reduces…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/26/2012

OPINION DEVIN LEONARD: "The Plot to Destroy America's Beer" "He examined the label. It said the beer was no longer brewed in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/25/2012

OPINION JAMES BENNET: "Interview with Michael Bloomberg on Everything From Campaign Money to Circumcision" "I think it's government's job not to ban…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/24/2012

OPINION MICHAEL C. OSBORNE: "Michael Shellenberger to climate activists: It’s not the end of the world" "At the core of the Breakthrough…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/23/2012

OPINION SCOTT GOTTLIEB: "ObamaCare vs. Women" "Here’s a sampling of what the Preventive Services Task Force dings: chlamydia screening in most women…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/22/2012

OPINION NICK GILLESPIE: "George McGovern, Libertarian Hero" "[W]hen you take a longer view of his career -- especially after…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/19/2012

OPINION ROBERT BRYCE: "A123 Goes Chapter 11" "The collapse of A123—as well as the January bankruptcy of another electric-car-battery maker,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/18/2012

OPINION LACHLAN MARKAY: "Another DOE-Backed Solar Company Goes Bankrupt" "A solar company that got a multi-million-dollar grant from the Department of Energy…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/17/2012

During last night's debate, President Obama and Governor Romney referred to small business 23 times. (Obama did it eight times; Romney did it fifteen…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/17/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "Five Bad Ideas in Tonight's Debate" "E-Verify: Mitt Romney is normally very upset about the potential job-killing impact of regulations,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/16/2012

OPINION CHARLES LANE: "Liberals’ green-energy contradictions" "Al Gore is about 50 times richer than he was when he left the vice presidency…