November 21, 2012

While lawmakers are debating the question of how much government we can afford, they have ignored the broader question of how much government we need.

Hewlett-Packard contends that Autonomy, the British software firm it acquired for $10 billion last year, misclassified revenue, including sales of hardware with sales of software licenses.

Some of the country’s retailers said they would move up sales to Thanksgiving Day, but stores in some New England states, adhering to those states’ “blue laws,” will be closed Thursday.

This week, officials closed all evacuation centers but two on Staten Island. Now they plan to rely solely on hotels, even as they brace for new arrivals in winter.

Under a truce announced by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Egyptian foreign minister, Israel and Hamas agreed to end all hostilities. But it was unclear how it would be enforced.

Filmmakers are pushing hard against, and sometimes dispensing with, storytelling conventions, and audiences seem willing to follow them.

“Killer Karaoke” and “Wives With Knives” bring slightly new, but considerably painful, twists to cable television reality shows.

From Des Moines to Omaha to Kansas City — a region known more for its barns than its bandwidth — a start-up tech scene is blossoming.

Andrew Solomon writes about families of individuals affected by a spectrum of cognitive, physical or psychological differences.

A lot of online retailers are offering sales around the holidays. Here are tips so you can stay home on Black Friday.

The Eileen Fisher clothing stores and headquarters were hit hard by last month’s big storm, but insurance, some planning and much luck helped executives and employees reopen the business.

Michael Connelly’s 25th novel has the Los Angeles cop Harry Bosch tying up loose ends from a 1992 murder.