It’s hard to believe, but one year ago, the big news story was President Donald Trump’s impeachment. Twelve months later, a viral pandemic is killing thousands of Americans every day and Republicans are still so loyal to Trump that it took until now for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to acknowledge that he’d lost the November election.So it seems worth ...

Americans are in the final sprint of a record year of e-commerce spending, filling their digital carts with holiday gifts and decor in a year when public health concerns are keeping them away from stores. That online haul, though, foreshadows an unfortunate aftershock for retailers: A potentially unprecedented deluge of merchandise returns. Online purchases have long had higher rates of ...

A long overdue antitrust push is gaining steam. But it’s focusing on large technology companies like Facebook Inc and Google-parent Alphabet Inc, which present complex problems that classic antitrust approaches won’t always solve. The cases are based on very standard stuff. The US Justice Department is accusing Google of illegally preserving its dominant market share in search and search advertising ...