When Barack Obama stood on the stage in Chicago yesterday with his "dear friend" Hillary Clinton at his side, it was the starkest evidence yet that change had come -- to the president-elect....

When Barack Obama stood on the stage in Chicago yesterday with his "dear friend" Hillary Clinton at his side, it was the starkest evidence yet that change had come -- to the president-elect....

The Black Friday stampede at a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., was a tragedy that highlights an important issue retailers will confront this holiday season: security. While Wal-Mart asserted that it had taken precautions to deal with shoppers who were bound to surge into the store for its Black Fri...

Circuit City's latest challenge strolled in to the company's Rockville Pike store yesterday about 10 a.m. His name: Glen Howard. His target: a 32-inch Samsung flat-screen television. The price he saw at Best Buy: $499. The Circuit City price: $499....

Circuit City's latest challenge strolled in to the company's Rockville Pike store yesterday about 10 a.m. His name: Glen Howard. His target: a 32-inch Samsung flat-screen television. The price he saw at Best Buy: $499. The Circuit City price: $499....

Until two cruise ships steamed up to Alaska two summers ago, the record for the silliest statement by a journalist had been held by Lincoln Steffens, in his time a famous American radical. Sent in 1919 to see how Russia was doing under the communists, Steffens supposedly reported, "I have seen the f...

Economists call them "inferior goods" and they are fast becoming a hot commodity. Inferior goods are simply the kinds of low-priced alternatives that people turn to during hard economic times. And not only the poor. "We're seeing more Mercedes and BMWs in Wal-Mart parking lots, and Wal-Mart shoppers...

Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana'......

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FAREWELL, MY SUBARU An Epic Adventure In Local Living By Doug Fine...