Defense Contractors

The current explosion of contract spending in Iraq -- hundreds of billions of dollars, with tens of billions wasted -- has made it clear that this course of action is no longer sustainable.

The military told my friend this past January that her son had foolishly carried an electrical appliance into a shower in Baghdad. That was a lie.

If you want to know why McCain is called a patriot, it's because in the all-volunteer military era he can claim special exemption from common sense in the name of past service.

I confronted the vice president of Blackwater on their killing of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in Sept. 2007. The day after, the Bush administration extended Blackwater's Iraq "security" contract for another year.

Why is the Pax World family of mutual funds investing in a defense contractor with thousands of employees deployed in the Persian Gulf?

The mother of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq this past January filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, the defense contractor that was in charge of inspecting the wiring at the base where a soldier died -- from electrocution.

What a week: Did Larry Craig go on national TV and cry about a Mutts and Moms dog? Did Ellen DeGeneres tell Matt Lauer she wasn't gay? Or was that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Did the Dali Lama insist he was still relevant? Did Britney announce she was running for president, while Stephen Colbert lost the right to visit his kids? So much happened, it was hard to keep it all straight. Or maybe I was too distracted by FundRace, HuffPost's addictive feature that makes it easy to see which presidential contender your friends, co-workers, and neighbors are contributing to. Our HuffPost team has been at it all week, crunching the numbers on everyone from media moguls to defense contractors to yoga instructors to Hollywood celebs (including the ones who didn't give). Check it out.

The Iraqi government said Tuesday it would review the status of private security companies as anger over the alleged involvement of Blackwater USA in ...