Trump’s cuts to the federal service program eliminated thousands of positions that provided career pathways in struggling small towns across America.
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Ukraine Infantry Adapts to More Menacing Drones
For an elite unit, rapidly evolving drone warfare makes the “toughest job in the army” both easier and more perilous.
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America the Beautiful? Yes
The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and despite the threats to democracy, it resonates more than ever.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Dangerous Trans-Rights Decision from the Supreme Court
Upholding Tennessee’s law banning hormone therapies and other treatments for trans youth alone relied on legal gymnastics and revived a long-discredited opinion from the 1970s.
Posted inPolitics
War on Renewable Energy: MAGA Ideology Over Economics
By gutting the Inflation Reduction Act and kneecapping clean energy, congressional Republicans are choosing MAGA ideology over jobs, investment, and lower energy costs.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
How to Fix Our Dangerous Dependency on Foreign Ships and Save American Shipbuilding
A key issue is restoring the long-reviled Jones Act, which can once again help America rule the waves.
Posted inPolitics
Remembering Bill Moyers: A Colossus of Journalism and Public Service
The CBS and PBS journalist and former LBJ press secretary was an inspiration.
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“When it Comes to Military Service-Connected Domestic Violence, Silence is Deadly”
Stacy Bannerman suffered domestic violence from a veteran. She’s spent over a decade helping others and pushing the Pentagon and VA to do more.
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Will Trump’s Bombing Raid on Iran Prove Not Just a Bust, But a Disaster?
A longtime military and intelligence insider explains why the failure to destroy Iran’s nuclear bunkers may have weakened U.S. power far beyond the Middle East.
Posted inWar in the Mideast
Will Trump’s Strikes on Iran Unleash a Global Arms Race?
Since World War II, nonproliferation efforts have limited the number of countries with nuclear weapons. That may be about to change.
