The Pentagon is only starting to come to grips with a serious problem.
Defense Department
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Why We Must Monitor the Sale of Surveillance Tech
Learning about the Pentagon’s drone program through FOIA requests and public filings
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Congress’s Latest Giveaway to Weapons Makers
While 7.5 million workers lose unemployment, members of Congress want to bail out the military industry.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A September 11 Reckoning: Calculating the Full Cost of War
Congress should not nickel-and-dime caring for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans recovering from injuries that would have been fatal in previous conflicts.
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⏩ Progressivism Today: Six Months Into Biden’s Presidency
Watch our writers consider the past, present, and future of progressivism.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Dems Fight to Make VA Health Care Enrollment Easier for New Veterans
While Republicans oppose it
Posted inBooks
Lawful Carnage
Scholar Samuel Moyn and journalist Spencer Ackerman consider the inherent contradictions of the endless war on terrorism.
Posted inAmerica and the World
With the Iraq Withdrawal, U.S. Wars Expand
All the ways Biden isn’t ending the forever wars
Posted inPolitics
The Final Rumsfeld Memos
A few last musings from former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Posted inAmerica and the World
Biden Can Do Better Than Trump’s China Policy
Great-power competition was never great.
