The victories for gay rights activists were not just in Maine, Minnesota, Maryland and Washington. The vote on Nov. 6 may have been a national tipping point for the acceptance of gays and lesbians as everyday citizens
A U.S. Marine speaks with an Afghan Local Police commander during a meeting between the two forces in Khost village, Farah province, Nov. 2.
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson won 1.1 million votes on Tuesday, more than any other Libertarian presidential candidate in history. In an interview with TIME, Johnson talks about his campaign, the consequences of re-electing Obama and his plans for the future.
After each election, the media tends to brood over a predictable set of issues, like the small mindedness of campaign policy proposals to the nastiness of negative advertising.
BattlelandNation-Building
The U.S. military is still trying to get Afghans to listen to its weather reports, warnings of suspected IED locations, and propaganda – that’s why it’s buying another 21,000 hand-cranked radios to give away to Afghan …
One of the iconic images of the 2012 presidential election was also one of the most disturbing: voters waiting in line as long as nine hours to cast their ballot.
BattlelandNavy
Some Navy officials thought our post Friday on the Pentagon inspector general’s report into Admiral James Stavridis’ travel to a hallowed wine gathering in France “really misses a larger point.”
The larger point, from here, is …
BattlelandPeople
We spent the weekend sifting through the shards of what had been the stellar career of the nation’s most prominent and respected post-9/11 general because of an extramarital affair.
“He is a guy,” Senator Saxby Chambliss told …
Nine years ago, the American oral history project StoryCorps launched when we put a sound-proof booth in New York’s Grand Central Terminal so families could record the stories of their lives.
About a week after we opened, an …
BattlelandVeterans
Today, Sunday, is Veterans Day.
The 2.5 million men and women who have served in our nation’s wars since 9/11 are our obligation – and liability – for decades to come.
“The United States is now emerging from the longest …
Bureaucracy may be limiting the speed of official relief but a broad-based volunteerism is trying to fill the gap
BattlelandIntelligence
It was a little more than a year ago that Dave Petraeus stopped by Time’s Washington bureau so we could chat with him about what 9/11 meant to him. He spoke glowingly of the soldiers he served alongside. “Our country has an …
