The United States recently announced it will withdraw nearly all of its military personnel from Saudi Arabia. Saudi-American relations have soured since September 11, 2001, and the once close Bush and Saud families are estranged. Former CIA field officer Robert Baer and New Yorker writer Elsa Walsh analyze the deterioration of the relationship. Also on the show: why Americans should familiarize themselves with the word "deflation", an explainer on the ubiquitous Burberry's plaid, and the legality of John Lee Malvo's statements to police.
Less is More
William Niskanen, chairman of The Cato Institute and former acting chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Reagan administration and Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management and founder of American Prospect, discuss ...
The Plaid Hatter
Tracie Rozhon, business reporter for the New York Times, on fashion labels renewing their image
Sheikh It Up
The New Yorker’s Elsa Walsh says we've let the Saudis down and Robert Baer, former CIA field officer, contributor to the May Atlantic Monthly, and author of the forthcoming Sleeping With The Devil (Crown) says the House of Saud is doomed
Malvo de Tete
Anne Coughlin, professor of law at the University of Virginia www.law.virginia.edu and Yale Kamisar, professor of law at the University of San Diego Law, on whether Malvo’s prosecutors followed proper procedure
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