How some (but not all) VA unions became a national-security threat
Veterans Affairs
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Has the VA Stymied a Profession It Helped Create?
Physician assistants could help with the Veterans Administration’s staffing challenges. But though the VA pays for training scholarships, PAs have found it hard to get work there.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Mad King Trump’s War on the Troops
The administration is vindictively hacking away at veterans’ benefits.
Posted inWorking in America
Trump Stomps Workers
Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Doug Collins’s Cancel Culture
The VA secretary is targeting the wrong contracts to eliminate waste and inefficiency.
Posted inTAP
Can Veterans Stop the Dismantling of Veterans’ Services?
Today on TAP: Trump and Musk have begun to cut back on services that veterans need. There’s a way veterans could stop them.
Posted inPolitics
How I Am Standing Up to DOGE
The California congressman explains why the upheaval of federal agencies is ineffective and a pretext for tax cuts for the rich.
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Crisis at the VA
On our live show, David and Suzanne Gordon discuss developments damaging the Veterans Health Administration and its prodigious research functions.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
VA Research Funding Slashed
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A ‘Middle Finger’ to Vets
Trump’s new VA secretary is a bigger threat to veterans’ care than Elon Musk.