Members of both parties call for the ticket giant to be broken up.
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The White House Debt Limit Strategy: Dismiss but Don’t Reject
Janet Yellen is stating that there’s no alternative but for Congress to increase the borrowing threshold, while giving herself room to take action if they don’t.
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How Nevada Picks Millions From California’s Pocket
A lawsuit against members of the wealthy Getty family exposes the intricacies of state trust law.
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John Deere Says Farmers Can Fix Their Own Tractors—Sometimes
It cuts a deal with a farmers’ group to forestall legislation requiring it to stop compelling farmers to come to Deere for all their repairs.
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FTC Ban on Noncompetes Sets Up Huge Legal Fight
The agency used its dormant rulemaking authority to prohibit the wage suppression tactic. Conservatives are already positioning to fight the rule in the courts.
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Project Censored, Part 2: Billionaire Press Domination
The real causes of inflation, Gates Foundation media investments, the CIA and Julian Assange, ALEC’s push to preserve its influence networks in state legislation, and surveillance advertising are the next five stories on the list.
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Project Censored, Part 1: Billionaire Press Domination
Fossil fuel subsidies, wage theft, EPA risk reports, congressional conflicts of interest, and dark, dark money: Concentration of corporate wealth and power distorts everything we see — and don’t see — in the world around us every day.
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From the North Atlantic to Rural Tennessee
Our managing editor handpicks his Best of 2022.
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From Washington to Corporate America and Beyond
Our executive editor handpicks his Best of 2022.
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Wells Fargo Wants to Buy Its Way Out of Trouble
CFPB director Rohit Chopra has other ideas.
