U.S. and the World
 
                                    Iran and China Leading Destinations for Smuggled U.S. Weapons
                                        A multi-agency initiative to combat illegal exports of restricted military and dual-use technology from the United States has resulted in criminal charges against more than 145 defendants in the past fiscal year, with roughly 43 percent of these c...    read more
                                    
                                 
                                    In India, They Feel America's Pain
                                        Few places in India absorb and imitate American culture as much as call centers, where ambitious young Indians with fake American accents and American noms de phone spend hours calling people in Indiana or Maine to help navigate software glitches,...    read more
                                    
                                 
                                    How to Treat Returning Vets
                                        Don’t ask The Question (Did you kill anybody?). “Support the Troops” magnets mean nothing to them. And military culture is not big on touching: the main things civilians want to do to soldiers — hug them and get them drunk — are generally not welc...    read more
                                    
                                 
                                    Voice of America Blocked in Russia…by the US Government
                                        Incredible as it seems, the taxpayer-funded Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is terminating the Voice of America’s Russian language programming.  Instead, the BBG is shifting its Russian language programming to Radio Liberty, which is also fu...    read more
                                    
                                U.S. and the World
 
                                    Iran and China Leading Destinations for Smuggled U.S. Weapons
                                        A multi-agency initiative to combat illegal exports of restricted military and dual-use technology from the United States has resulted in criminal charges against more than 145 defendants in the past fiscal year, with roughly 43 percent of these c...    read more
                                    
                                 
                                    In India, They Feel America's Pain
                                        Few places in India absorb and imitate American culture as much as call centers, where ambitious young Indians with fake American accents and American noms de phone spend hours calling people in Indiana or Maine to help navigate software glitches,...    read more
                                    
                                 
                                    How to Treat Returning Vets
                                        Don’t ask The Question (Did you kill anybody?). “Support the Troops” magnets mean nothing to them. And military culture is not big on touching: the main things civilians want to do to soldiers — hug them and get them drunk — are generally not welc...    read more
                                    
                                 
                                    Voice of America Blocked in Russia…by the US Government
                                        Incredible as it seems, the taxpayer-funded Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is terminating the Voice of America’s Russian language programming.  Instead, the BBG is shifting its Russian language programming to Radio Liberty, which is also fu...    read more
                                    
                                 
        


