Encourage veterans, including those with PTSD and brain injuries, to join law enforcement after they leave the military. What could go wrong?
Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early
Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early are co-authors of Courage or Complicity? How Veterans are Responding to the Assault on Democracy. They can be reached at Lsupport@aol.com
Posted inHealth Care
VA Secretary Says No Department Wide RIFs, But It’s No Time to Cheer
The worst RIFs are evaded for now, but the long-term future of veterans’ health care is still threatened by privatization.
Posted inHealth Care
Critics of VA Cuts Say, “This is Life and Death Stuff”
Musk and Trump’s DOGE cuts are a grave threat to veterans’ health. Here’s why.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Sober Pick for Veterans Affairs Has His Work Cut Out
Former Representative Doug Collins offers a reassuring vision for the department helping nine million veterans each year. But the VA’s needs and his support for privatization don’t augur well.
Posted inHealth Care
Pete Hegseth’s War on Warriors
The press has ignored his championing failed healthcare privatization schemes for our veterans and current military.
Posted inPolitics
Democrats Hope Walz and the Party’s Military Veterans Have the Right Stuff
When the Minnesota governor debates Vance, a fellow vet, it will underscore faith that progressive veterans like Walz, Ruben Gallego, and Dan Osborn have a shot this year.
Posted inPolitics
Democrats Are Stacking the Deck Against Vets
Biden may soon put the VA’s future in the hands of privatization advocates.
Posted inHealth Care
A VA Critic Becomes Virginia’s New Veterans Affairs Chief
What Glenn Youngkin’s appointment of Daniel Gade reveals about the GOP’s real attitude toward returning soldiers.
Posted inBooks, Featured, Political Animal
Public Service the Hard Way
How Donald Trump hired and fired his first Veterans Affairs secretary.
