“In the last year -- year to date compared with last year -- our casualty rate is down by nearly 40%. And this reflects the fact that across the force as a whole, the risk to our people is reducing as we hand over responsibility for the combat operations to our Afghan partners.”
Women’s Inhumanity to Other Women in the Workplace
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There’s Johnny!
Clips from classic early broadcasts of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson – long feared lost – have turned up in a military storage unit.
The 16mm film reel had been stored in Riverside, Calif., for nearly a …
Solemn Semper Fi
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“My Daughter Was Scared of Me”
Army Major Andrew March has pulled three combat tours – a pair in Iraq and his most recent, in 2010 and 2011, in Afghanistan. In this recently-posted June interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, March details his role keeping aircraft flying – and spying – as part of Task Force Odin.
Harvesting Labor Rights: Chavez’s UFW At 50
On September 30, 1962, legendary Chicano civil rights activist Cesar Chavez founded what would become the United Farm Workers of America—and with migrant labor a focus of the U.S. political debate, the UFW’s 50th anniversary is …
“I thought it was amazing that someone in her position would go on with that degree of certainty, that fast and that authoritatively and be that wrong.”
Family Traces Mysterious Illness to New Home’s Previous Life as a Meth Lab
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Cultural Misunderstanding
Bobby Ghosh, TIME’s Baghdad correspondent for much of the Iraq War, once told me a story. Early in the war he embedded with a company of soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard. They had been given the task of patrolling a …
“We’re In It To Win It”
Are These End Times for Meat?
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“Strategic Ambiguity,” Indeed
You would think, given Taiwan’s role as the most likely flashpoint in relations between the U.S. and China, that the faux U.S. embassy in Taipei, and its Washington outpost, would be well-oiled operations. You’d presume there would be bright and clear lines of authority and command to ensure diplomatic kerfuffles don’t turn …
