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A package of bills to improve antitrust enforcement passes the House.

If they auto-enroll everyone in their newly generous income-driven repayment plan, it will significantly take the sting out of resuming payments. Joe Biden’s plan is the culmination of years of activist work.

Two more members of the Postal Service Board of Governors finish their terms in December. Biden could replace them with members willing to fire the postmaster general.

A side deal with Joe Manchin attempts to approve a pipeline in his backyard and speed through permitting rules. Progressives should make their own conditions.

A new bill tries to claw back authority given to the executive branch on debt cancellation.

The attorney general’s office will seek to apply the state’s price-gouging law to opportunistic price increases that use high inflation as an excuse.

Companies are raising prices well above increases in their costs. The only antidote is to finally take action against corporate power.

Facebook is just a garden-variety fraud scheme that breaks the law for its own self-enrichment

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal banking system. The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card.

Pandemic relief measures are hobbled by serious failures of program design and implementation.