Veterans’ Private Residential Treatment Must Match VA’s Quality and Cost America manages a precarious two-tier system where vulnerable veterans can receive dramatically different care depending on...
The US Is Unprepared for the Next War "Despite endless talk about game-changing weapons, only the widespread deployment of drones has truly altered the nature of...
When "Unsubstantiated" Starts to Mean "False": The Army's New Complaint Policy In July 2025 the U.S. Army announced changes to its investigative procedures that sounds simple on the surface. According to...
How the Military can Streamline Moves for Families with Special Needs Moving to a new duty station is a hallmark of military life, but for families enrolled in the Department of Defense's...
The New Iron Curtain: Why Poland’s Border with Belarus Matters to the U.S. Decades after the Cold War ended and the Iron Curtain fell, a new divide is emerging along Poland’s eastern border with...
Still Married to the Military: How Divorcing a Service Member Makes Custody a Minefield I was so busy figuring out divorced life that it didn’t occur to me that even though I was no longer married to a man in the...
We Have Always Served: The Untold Legacy of Black Military Families From the fight for independence to the battlefields of Europe, from Korea to Kandahar, Black Americans have shown up, signed...
4 Out of 5 US Troops Surveyed Understand the Duty to Disobey Illegal Orders With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard – along with federal law enforcement – into...
The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA While attention remains focused on the looming crisis of Department of Veterans Affairs employees facing termination, an even...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
