The story of a nimble Internet firm eating the lunch of a lumbering brick-and-mortar chain has become an old standby, but Wal-Mart is hoping to reverse that trend. The big box retailer quietly launched an online classifieds portal last month….

As Eliot Spitzer’s once promising political career fades into distant memory, the career of more than one misadventurer has gotten a leg up in the past few weeks. This weekend, Brazilian madam Andreia Schwartz was offered a plea deal to…

If Virginia’s Democratic governor set out to make the Republican legislature look incompetent, he has succeeded beyond all measure. One would have thought that a Republican majority in both House and Senate could keep taxes from rising, but it’s actually…