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...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration from Sending National Guard Troops to Oregon A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after...
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...
Veterans, Who Saw One of Their Own Arrested by ICE and Charged, Say Feds Are Undermining Democracy Days after a 70-year-old Air Force veteran was among five people charged while protesting outside a suburban U.S. Immigration...
As Hegseth Orders Changes to the Pentagon Watchdog, Advocates Say It Will Silence Complaints Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s...
