Don Lichterman

For half a century, the number on a gas station sign was the closest thing American and European politics had to a universal economic mood ring. That role now belongs to something far less visible: the monthly electric bill, pushed higher by artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and a power grid straining to keep up with

Freedom Fuel Network became a national talking point this summer for selling gasoline well below market price across Pennsylvania and South Jersey. A federal lawsuit filed against one of its fuel suppliers now raises a harder question: how a chain nobody could quite identify the owners of was able to undercut every competitor on the