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GM wants to buy back financing arm; Mixed feelings over Harlem's gentrification; The Big Book: In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race Tha...

Governor announces California's tight budget plan; Growing coffee in China's tea country; SLIDESHOW: Growing coffee in China's t...

This week we're looking at why we find things pleasurable with Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works, The New Science of Why We Like ...

JOHNSON: No I think it's a very bad idea. You don't have a lot of fiscal space. You should ve using it to stimulate the economy in a...

The Kinect video game system is selling like crazy. 2.5 million units have already been sold, according to Microsoft, and five million are e...

The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was beloved for his book "Anam Cara", Gaelic for "soul friend," and fo...

Economic analyst David Korten is author of the book "Agenda for a New Economy." KORTEN: A bank that offers real financial services...

TEXT OF INTERVIEW KAI RYSSDAL: Hurricane Toma is delivering yet more trouble to Haiti today. Officials in Port-au-Prince say three people ha...

The rapper Invincible recently lobbied successfully for MTV-U to air her independent video, Ropes. The song is controversial because it deal...

TED KLONTZ: Ben Franklin said, he asked the question who is rich? And he answered that by saying he who is content. And then he asked the qu...

Read chapter one of Elmore Leonard's newest book "Djibouti," published by Harper Collins. The novel follows an award-winning d...

For nearly two years ‘The Help’ has been on bestseller lists across the country. It’s a fictional account of African-American maids and thei...

Here's a thought: What if all that time you waste on social networking websites isn't a waste of time at all? What if tweeting your ...

The Magazine Publishers of America was established in 1919 and is the leading industry association for magazine publishers. However, it'...

It’s not only our politicians who fake it. William Ian Miller, a law professor at the University of Michigan, admits that his own anxieties ...

Jonathan Alter is the author of the new political book " The Promise ." JONATHAN ALTER : Barack Obama told me in an interview that...

In a few breathtaking months, we've culturally moved from seeing Wall Street as an icon of thriving civil society to discussing its work...

Dave Zinczenko is the editor in chief of Men's Health magazine. He's also the author of the latest installment of the "Eat This...

STACEY VANEK-SMITH: It's spring, and you know what that means: swimsuit season is right around the corner and diet season is in full swi...