Since the recession ended, the economy has never grown fast enough to make up for lost ground – and that’s helping to keep household income depressed for as much as half the population.
BattlelandMilitary Women
Sexual Assault in the Ranks, And in Society
The specter of violence against women, including domestic abuse and sexual assault, continues to grow unabated.
Even with films such as The Invisible War, and desperate acts of retribution such as Lorena Bobbit’s penile …
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Expectant Parents Die in Hit-and-Run: Photos of a Close-Knit Community in Mourning
It’s among the most exciting moments of a young couple’s life: Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were rushing from their Brooklyn, N.Y. home early Sunday morning to the hospital where they were expected to give birth to their …
A Contrary Voice on Women in Combat
Last month, outgoing defense secretary Leon Panetta declared men and women would have the same chance to fight in combat for the first time in our nation’s history. But from the day they meet a recruiter, until the day they are …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
The Fuller Brush-Off, Man
There was a dire story on the front page of Sunday’s New York Times datelined Arlington, Va. – the Pentagon’s ‘hood:
“Virginia’s Feast on U.S. Funds Nears an End”
…the headline said. Reporter Trip Gabriel reported from …
State Dept: Build the Keystone Pipeline or Not, the Oil Sands Crude Will Flow
While the environmental movement has made the Keystone XL pipeline a line in the sand for U.S. climate policy, the project itself will have little impact on carbon emissions and on climate change.
Patrolling the Perimeter
A U.S. Army platoon leader checks on his sergeant pulling security Feb. 26 at a remote checkpoint near Takhteh Pol.
BattlelandPeople
Air Warrior, R.I.P.
The Army aviator who helped kill the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter – a $40 billion program to build 650 scout choppers that was put out of its misery in 2004 after the Pentagon spent $8 billion for zero operational aircraft — has …
Will Reform of Fannie and Freddie Kill the 30-Year Mortgage?
Fannie and Freddie are still owned by the federal government and are the only thing holding the U.S.’ badly battered housing-finance system together, as the Feds back 9 out of 10 mortgages issued today.
War Lit
Our best writers on war were nobodies before they got a break.
This is doubly true of veterans, from Hemingway and Joseph Heller to Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers, author of 2012’s celebrated The Yellow Birds, whose …
BattlelandPresident Obama
Decision-Making, Lite
How much outside advice – from the Pentagon and other places – does a President need before making national-security decisions? Plainly he doesn’t need any, short of going to war (and even that is now in question, as we’ll …
Female Marines Train For Combat
A recent change in the rules means young women soon will be eligible to go into harm’s way with the U.S. military’s most elite fighting force.