While 7.5 million workers lose unemployment, members of Congress want to bail out the military industry.
Defense Department
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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.
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Dems Fight to Make VA Health Care Enrollment Easier for New Veterans
While Republicans oppose it
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Lawful Carnage
Scholar Samuel Moyn and journalist Spencer Ackerman consider the inherent contradictions of the endless war on terrorism.
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With the Iraq Withdrawal, U.S. Wars Expand
All the ways Biden isn’t ending the forever wars
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The Final Rumsfeld Memos
A few last musings from former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
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Biden Can Do Better Than Trump’s China Policy
Great-power competition was never great.
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Meet the Consulting Firm That’s Staffing the Biden Administration
WestExec represented major corporations throughout the Trump years. Now it’s in the White House.
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The Real War Dogs of Iraq
One company is empowering Kurdish human rights abusers. Another is accused of selling Iranian fuel to the U.S. military.