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If you're a college student who acquires health care through your school, and you're following media coverage this week surrounding President Obama's health care reforms, your head might still be spinning in alarm right now. Right-leaning commentators cooked up some juicy, almost gladiatorial...

Wal-Mart made money this quarter, surprising the people on Wall Street who pay attention to these things and leading a lot of people to wonder if things really are getting better for Main Street America. Sadly, the answer seems to be no. Or so say the numbers. Although Wal-Mart's bottom line...

I began my journalism career in 1989 at the Philadelphia Inquirer during the paper's glory days under editor Gene Roberts, when it was called "The Pulitzer Factory." As a cub reporter, I learned fast under some of the best journalists around: Tim Weiner, David Lee Preston, Steve Lopez and Dave...

Michael Kinsley, the Slate founder and all-purpose genius, is stepping down as editor of the not-yet-launched business site of Atlantic Media, publisher of The Atlantic magazine. He had been in the position since October, and he confirms his departure in an exclusive to DailyFinance.

Reed Hastings sure knows how to bring down the mood in a room. The Netflix founder and CEO was a guest Wednesday at the Magazine Publishers of America's Innovation Summit, but he couldn't bring himself to tell his hosts what they surely wanted to hear. During a keynote interview, Hastings...

Will our new-found miserly ways keep economic recovery out of our reach? What does the situation in Japan tell us?Over the last few weeks, the news has been filled with stories about consumers clamping down on discretionary spending. Increasingly, analysts are drawing connections between the...