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Exxon’s Latest Profit-Seeking Move: Selling Unlimited Oil Abroad Despite Shortages at Home

Energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp. is protesting one of the Biden administration's moves to drive down gas prices: reducing the amount of U.S. fuel that's…
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Air Travel Turning Point? Biden Moves to Block Latest Airline Merger

Airline mergers, long given a rubber stamp by federal government regulators, are about to face a major high-profile challenge. The Justice Department is taking JetBlue…
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After Student Debt, the Next Battle is Against Medical Debt

The most perverse part of medical debt is that it exists at all. There’s probably someone, somewhere, who believes that $120,000 is a fair price…
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Biden Targets Hearing Aid Cartel, Stock Prices Plummet

A new Biden administration rule aimed at improving the price and availability of hearing aids has upended the industry in a matter of days, with…
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CFPB Signals It Will End Billions of Dollars in Credit Card Late Fees

U.S. bankers and interest groups are mobilizing to stop the Biden administration from overhauling how the industry approaches credit card late fees. The exact scope…

Railroad Workers Furious Over Biden Board’s Contract Proposal

An emergency board appointed by President Biden issued recommendations for a national railroad contract on Tuesday that fell far short of what rail unions had…

Why the White House Won’t Stop Oil and Gas Price Gouging

Produced and edited by Josh Miller-Lewis and Josh Hirschfeld-Kroen Countries around the world are enacting windfall profits taxes on record oil & gas profits. But…

How Democrats Can Run and Win in Rural Areas

Produced and Edited by Joshua Miller-Lewis and Sam Quigley Progressive Chloe Maxmin is showing how Democrats can win in rural America. She unseated a top…

Junk Fees Prey on Vulnerable Communities

Faiz Shakir with More Perfect Union sat down with Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to discuss the agency’s effort to…

Joe Biden Promised to Expunge Marijuana Convictions. Why Hasn’t He?

During his presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised to decriminalize marijuana and expunge cannabis convictions immediately. For the thousands still serving sentences, there’s one question: what’s…

How Biden Could Decriminalize Marijuana Immediately

President Biden could decriminalize marijuana and expunge marijuana convictions — fulfilling key campaign promises — without waiting for Congress. Marijuana remains a Schedule I drug—the…

Medicare Premiums Will Skyrocket After Approval of Unproven $56k Drug

Seniors will pay record-high Medicare premiums in 2022 after the FDA approved an Alzheimer’s drug that costs $56,000 over the objections of medical advisors. There…