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Robert Young Pelton, author of "License to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror" and former adviser to NATO in Afghanistan, on the hidden functions of contractors in the U.S. militar... (article)
Headlines; As Afghanistan War Escalates, So Do Contractor Roles (article)
“Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.” (excerpted from a statement on Tiger Woods' website.) ... (article)
Contractor Roles Increase As Afghanistan War Escalates (episode)
You might call military contractors the absent presence in President Obama’s Tuesday speech announcing his new strategy in Afghanistan. There are currently 104,000 military contractor...
Business Takeout: Louise Story tells us about a controversial new procedure at the Dallas Morning News and several other papers owned by the A.H. Belo Corporation, which asks some j...
President Obama is making Allentown, PA, the first city to visit after yesterday's White House jobs summit. Our guest, Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, attended the jobs summit and is tr...
Last night the storytellers at The Moth in Detroit took on the topic closest to Motor City's heart: cars. Alex Trajano, host of the event, shares the winning story with us and some ob...
For this week's movie roundup, contributor Rafer Guzman reviews "Brothers," with Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tobey McGuire; "Everybody's Fine," with Robert DeNiro and Drew B...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release November's unemployment numbers this morning; most observers expect unemployment to rise once again. Millions of Americans are either un- o...
Business Takeout: Yesterday, Comcast announced a deal to buy a majority stake in NBC from General Electric. TIME media and TV critic James Poniewozik discusses how this new media co...
Politico is calling it a "Family Feud" on Capital Hill. Mounting tension between the Congressional Black Caucus and one-time member, now-President Barack Obama, seems to be coming to ...
More than a week after Tiger Woods' car accident, the buzz about his personal life shows no signs of waning – and it’s not just in the United States. The debate about privacy, celeb...
In cash-strapped Arizona this week, a program that provides monthly subsidies of about $350 to help working parents pay for child care turned away their 10,000 child. Those 10,000 chi...
This week, President Obama proclaimed that terrorists in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan are plotting new attacks aimed at American soil. The person tasked with prevent...
<p>We talk with our friend, University of Maryland economist and business professor <strong>Peter Morici</strong>, about what this morning's slightly-reduced unemployment numbers say about the state of the economy.</p>
Jobs Takeout: The U.S. economy shed 11,000 jobs in November, which is a much lower number than people expected. Dan Gross, Newsweek columnist, joins us to unpack the statistics. L...