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Dexter Filkins, New York Times reporter recently back from Afghanistan: (full story) "The lesson that they took away from Iraq was that you can't kill and capture your way out of som... (article)
The Takeaway for Thursday, October 15, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
There were two incidents in my football playing days that I thought of when I heard Rush Limbaugh was part of a group vying for ownership of the St. Louis Rams. One happened to me in ... (article)
<p>Headlines; Katrina</p> (article)
New Orleans Locals Anticipate President's Visit (episode)
President Obama heads to New Orleans tomorrow — his first trip to the Big Easy since becoming president. His plans include a visit to a charter school and holding a town hall meeting...
Washington Takeout: Congresssional Democrats are attacking an antitrust exemption that lets insurance companies avoid federal oversight. Washington Examiner White House corresponde...
Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the symbolic threshold of 10,000. New York Times finance reporter Louise Story says the news is interesting, but it doesn't say...
Monty Python, the British comic troupe with a penchant for absurdist humor, retelling historic and biblical stories, and above all, glorifying Spam, are celebrating th...
BBC correspondent Adam Mynott joins us with a report on increasing violence in Pakistan. Earlier today, eleven people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a police station in the...
This morning we're discussing technology companies who have made diversity a priority. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up Google, they made diverse hiring a goal. It wasn’t for th...
In the high-volume debate about heath care reform, one major player has been notably quiet: the health insurance industry. For the most part, the industry has given faint support to r...
Washington Takeout: Washington Examiner White House correspondent Julie Mason says President Obama will face a tough crowd when he visits New Orleans tomorrow. Many city residents ...
For decades, motivational speakers like Tony Robbins have told us that positive thinking can vastly improve our lives. But Barbara Ehrenreich, the writer famous for the 2001 bestselle...
A new program called Operation Proper Exit brings Iraq war veterans back to the battlefields that haunt them. The New York Times foreign correspondent, Rod Nordland, followed a group ...
New York Times foreign correspondent Dexter Filkins recently returned from Afghanistan, where he talked with Gen. Stanley McChrystal and traveled with American soldiers in one of the ...