Shopping Under the Influence: A Guide

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Stoical types will tell you that the only way to SUI well is to not do it at all, but there are some tips that can help you do it better. Because chances are, you are going to be exposed to a drink and a store, or a drink and your computer and an Internet connection, at some point in the very near future. You might as well be prepared, or as prepared as possible. Follow these rules.

By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 24, 2012

No Humans, No Problem: How Wall Street Avoids Working Through the Holidays

We use computers for so many things over the holidays, from online shopping to video chatting, so why not go all in and let it run the stock market, too?

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By Connor Simpson

Dec 23, 2012

The 'Scary Movie 5' Trailer May Have Breached Lindsay Lohan's Contract

So, the Scary Movie 5 trailer came out yesterday. Routine and regular enough, right? Wrong, because Lindsay Lohan and the producers of this movie are "feuding" and apparently they took a veiled shot at her in the trailer. 

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By Connor Simpson

Dec 23, 2012

The Last Newsweek Cover Has a Hashtag on It

You're pretty much resigned to reading Sports Illustrated or Reader's Digest the next time you go to the dentist's office now because Newsweek is no more. In a questionable move, Tina Brown made the magazine's final cover feature an old picture of the Newsweek building and a hashtag.

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By Connor Simpson

Dec 22, 2012

Politico Poo-Poos the Wall Street Journal's Big Fiscal Cliff Story

Since when did Politico become the media's biggest shot thrower? In this morning's Playbook email, Politico's Mike Allen took some shots at the Wall Street Journal for their big fiscal cliff story. 

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By J.K. Trotter

Dec 21, 2012

Chuck Hagel Is Sorry for Calling Another Potential Appointee 'Aggressively Gay'

The latest storm centers on the would-be Secretary of Defense's comments about would-be ambassador James Hormel 15 years ago — criticism substantive enough that Hagel is now walking it back.

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By Jake Adelstein

Dec 21, 2012

What Michael Woodford Saw at Olympus

As arrests mount in the Olympus accounting fraud scandal — the FBI took a Singaporean banker into custody today — Michael Woodford, the former CEO of the Japanese optics giant who blew the whistle discusses with The Atlantic Wire how nearly a billion dollars disappeared and the true hero who brought the scheme to light.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Dec 21, 2012

The American Economy Is on Fire Again, Apparently

For the first time in years, everyone seems to agree that the economy truly appears to be back on track, as most of this week's new economic indicators zoomed past expectations.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 20, 2012

Where Will Jake Tapper Fit in at CNN?

ABC News's senior White house correspondent is leaving the network to become an anchor at CNN, and we play the guessing game for which slot he'll fill in new CNN boss Jeff Zucker's lineup.

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By Richard Lawson

Dec 19, 2012

Movie Review

'The Impossible': A Tsunami Gone Bad

Here we have two halves of a half-true story: moving scenes of a family facing disaster, stuffed up against a mini-thriller of doom and a goopy feel-good drama. Is this a real-life fable of survival, or a sober look at an unimaginable catastrophe?

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By Dashiell Bennett

Dec 19, 2012

The U.S. Government Is Ready to Unload Its General Motors Stock

General Motors plans to buy back $5.5 billion worth of its stock from the federal government, starting the process that will unwind the U.S. Treasury's ownership of the once troubled car maker. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 18, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg Is Feeling Generous, Again

Fans of philanthropy around the world gave Mark Zuckerberg a collective slow clap on Tuesday night when he committed to donating nearly $500 million worth of Facebook stock to charity.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Dec 18, 2012

What Obama Can Do On Guns Right Now, Without Congress

Even as reports surface that he has asked his cabinet to look into an assault-weapons ban and that an old Justice Department report may be back on the table, the president could use executive orders to impose some gun restrictions — today.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Dec 18, 2012

Major Private Equity Firm Is Getting Out of the Gun Business

Cerberus Capital Management, which helped created one the nation's largest gun manufacturing conglomerates, has announced it is selling off its investment in the group in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 17, 2012

Is Anyone Surprised That Walmart Bribes the Mexican Government?

As if Walmart wasn't already having a rough day in the media, The New York Times just published a devastating piece on the company's habit of paying off Mexican officials to get what it wants.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 14, 2012

The Daily's Not-So-Fond Farewell

To honor The Daily's last day in existence, some members of its remaining staff have created this video sign-off — to the tune of The Sound of Music's "So Long, Farewell" — and, well, it's sad.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 14, 2012

Relax, Slate Is Not Putting Up a Pay Wall

Forbes took a look at how Slate is trying to figure out its revenue options, and, judging by its chief's instant freakout, those definitely do not include charging readers for access to every story.

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By Connor Simpson

Dec 13, 2012

Can Wal-Mart Save the Twinkie?

Hope exists and prayer works. Hostess is going through the bankruptcy motions, and one of the rumured parties interested in saving our precious Twinkies is the big blue retail box store Wal-Mart.

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By Connor Simpson

Dec 12, 2012

Wal-Mart and McDonalds CEOs Make More Than Their Employees Dream Of

We feel for you, burger-line cooks and retail workers of America. You do hero's work. But the men who run your giant employers, well, they make an alarming amount of money — especially when you put it in the context of your own paycheck.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 12, 2012

The Hunger Games of Newspaper Layoffs

In the dystopian world of the news business the gamemakers at The Kansas City Star have offered two tributes, ahem, reporters, the choice in deciding who stays and who goes: if one stays, the other gets laid off — and vice versa.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 12, 2012

Where Does Ann Curry Fit in at CNN?

Jeff Zucker isn't going to be starting as the boss at CNN until after the new year, but we can still ask who he's firing, what the new lineup will look like, and today's big TV-news news: Is he going to hire America's favorite jilted anchor?

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Who Wants to Buy the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune?

Here's some news out of the Tribune Company: As it emerges from bankruptcy, the embattled media conglomerate is looking to sell off The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. Paging Rupert Murdoch?

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By Dashiell Bennett

Dec 11, 2012

Here's a Secret Email That Might Prove FedEx Has Been Screwing Us for Years

Delivery specialist FedEx has been accused of "systematically" overcharging its business and government clients for nearly a decade, and this may be the smoking gun to prove it.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Dec 11, 2012

The U.S. Made $22 Billion Bailing Out AIG

More than four years after rescuing the insurance giant from total collapse, the Treasury Department has finally sold off all its remaining shares in AIG—and even made a little money off the deal. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 10, 2012

HSBC Should've Thought Twice Before Laundering Money for Terrorists

HSBC, Europe's largest bank, is expected to get hit with a fine of at least $1.9 billion, the biggest bank fine ever, to settle money laundering investigations in the United States.

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By Richard Lawson

Dec 10, 2012

The Call Sheet

Will Smith and His Kid Are in Trouble

Today in show business news: A new trailer has Big Willie Style and Little Willie Style stranded, Eliza Dushku is returning to TV, and Taylor Swift is forever.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 9, 2012

Does Michael Bloomberg Really Need a Newspaper?

Michael Bloomberg's got a lot going on. He's the mayor of New York City. He owns 90 percent of the wickedly profitable media company that bears his name. He's number 10 on the Forbes 500 list. Can't he just quit while he's ahead?

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 7, 2012

Is The Washington Post Paywall Coming or What?

If the paper is going to start charging you to use its website, don't even think of asking the paper's media reporters about it.

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By Connor Simpson

Dec 7, 2012

Cliff Diving

The Fiscal Cliff Talks Might Be John Boehner's Last Stand as Speaker

If John Boehner fails to get a fiscal cliff deal done, a responsibility he's now put entirely on his own back, then he might have trouble on January 3rd when he's expected to be re-elected as Speaker of the House. A conservative group is angling to throw a monkey wrench in that process. 

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The Newsweek Layoffs Are Coming, and This Could Get Ugly

Tina Brown announced the names of three editors who will top the masthead of the Newsweek-Daily Beast company after it replaces Newsweek. Now layoffs are imminent.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 6, 2012

Financial Times Blings Out Column with 10-Year-Old Hip-Hop Metaphors

"G-Dawg splashes out tax cuts like P Diddy with Dom Pérignon in his Blingiest giveaway," reads the headline of Jonathan Guthrie's column today regarding the British economy. Seriously. (We think?)

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 5, 2012

Zynga Wants to Get into the Gambling Business

Zynga recently filed a preliminary application for a gambling license in Nevada. We're not talking about gambling with Farmville credits, either. We're talking cold hard cash.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 5, 2012

How to Get Over the Twitter-Instagram War on Photos

Instagram made sharing its photos a lot more annoying for Twitter users Wednesday in what's being called a "brewing war." We're here to help with a handy three-step program to getting over this terrible ordeal.

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By David Wagner

Dec 5, 2012

Comment of the Day

Citigroup Layoff Memo Reads Like a Bad Dilbert Joke

Citigroup announced a massive round of cuts this morning through a press release that seems to go out of its way to make no sense. One commenter thought she was reading Dilbert for a second.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Dec 5, 2012

Why Citigroup Is Slashing So Many Jobs

The "repositioning action," as they so eloquently put it, comes as the bank isn't doing well overseas and looks to get out of some less profitable emerging markets.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 5, 2012

Rupert Murdoch's Mother Has Died

No matter what you may think of her ornery son, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch was actually pretty awesome, and she passed away today at the age of 103.

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By Jen Doll

Dec 4, 2012

What We Really Think About When We Watch Reality Television These Days

What are we really doing when we're sitting in front of the TV laughing at yet another smackdown between the Real Housewives of Wherever? Sometimes it's simple, sometimes it's more complicated, and the truth of the matter is, it probably varies for each of us. We look at 10 shows.

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Tabloid Photographers Defend Man Who Snapped 'Post' Subway Horror

The Internet's response seems to be that the photographer should have been attempting to help the victim. Is it really that black-and-white, though?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 3, 2012

Roger Ailes Tried to Get David Petraeus to Run for President, as a 'Joke'

What a world it would have been had Roger Ailes gotten his way last year, when he recruited one of his Fox News lieutenants to talk David Petraeus into running against Obama in 2012.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 3, 2012

The Murdochs Want the U.S. Phone Hacking Case Thrown Out on a Technicality

While you weren't looking, Rupert and James Murdoch filed a motion to dismiss charges brought before them in a class action lawsuit over the epic News International phone hacking scandal.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 3, 2012

Romney's New Marriott Job Pays Him a Fraction of What He Made It This Year

Not that it will pay him much, or that he hasn't held it before, but Romney will rejoin the board of directors at Marriott, the exclusive hotel of the campaign announced Monday.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 3, 2012

Rupert Murdoch Is Folding 'The Daily'

In 12 days, Rupert Murdoch's tablet publication The Daily will be shutting down, and for one simple reason: The world's first bold foray into iPad-only newspapering wasn't making money.

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By John Hudson

Dec 3, 2012

Media Diet

Jonathan Karl: What I Read

ABC's senior political correspondent lays out his favorite beat reporters and confesses to a severe case of Bieber Fever. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 2, 2012

UK Lawmakers Say Google, Amazon and Starbucks Are Guilty of Immoral Tax Dodging

The era of big multinational corporations like Google, Amazon and Starbucks skirting around their tax liabilities is coming to a close. In the United Kingdom, it is, anyways.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 2, 2012

Another News Corp Executive Bites the Dust

Like we've come to expect, the latest resignation at News Corp is dramatic, political and slightly shrouded in mystery. It is not, however, at all related to phone hacking.

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By Connor Simpson

Dec 1, 2012

Meet the Poor Guy Tasked with Running News Corp's New Publishing Company

Rupert Murdoch finally decided who would inherit the perilous job of running his probably doomed new publishing company once the News Corp. beast completes it's transformation into a two headed hydra. Unsurprisingly, he went with his best newsman. 

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By Connor Simpson

Nov 30, 2012

This Isn't Your Dad's Bazooka Bubble Gum...

The classic bubble gum brand Bazooka Joe is getting its first major facelift... ever. But with the new packaging and color schemes, the gum is losing one of its most distinctive aspects -- the comics. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 29, 2012

Jeff Zucker's CNN Already Has a New Star

After reports surfaced earlier this week, CNN  finally announced Jeff Zucker as its new president on Thursday, which means everyone can officially start telling him how to fix things. We have three words (the O' counts): Soledad O'Brien.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 28, 2012

The Prospect of Groupon's CEO Firing Himself Thrills Investors

In a normal world, it's not a good sign when a CEO publicly balked at the state of affairs at his company, highlighting its hemorrhaging stock price. But we learned long ago that Groupon does not operate in a normal world.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 28, 2012

The Heaviest Thing Amazon Will Ship for Free Weighs Nearly a Ton

You know how Amazon has that "Super Saver" option that promises free shipping on pretty much anything you buy if you're willing to wait, like, six weeks for it to arrive? They're not kidding. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 28, 2012

Does The Times' Public Editor Regret Its Adventures in Social-Media Babysitting?

Margaret Sullivan has already half-revealed that even though she supports this idea — and even though there are bigger questions at hand — well, maybe this whole thing was kind of a bad call.

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