Joe Klein’s cover story, How Service Can Save Us in last week’s Time, identifies several critical issues that must be further explored and better understood if we are to more successfully engage and support the men, women, and …
Meteor Strike: Investigating a Cosmic Crime Scene
A new video tells the tale of an unlikely bit of astronomical forensics
BattlelandDon't Ask Don't Tell
Gay Pride…at the Pentagon
It may be tough for some to believe, but Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel led the celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month in the Pentagon auditorium Wednesday.
“We’re very proud of everything the gay and …
“I think that the biggest threat to our future sits in Washington, D.C., and not some place else. The rest of the problems of the world wouldn't worry me if we had a functional government and a Congress that could actually begin to address some of the longer-term problems.”
— Former defense secretary and CIA chief Robert Gates, speaking to Hearst media executives Monday night in New York City.
Supreme Court Rules Indian Law Doesn’t Apply to Controversial Adoption Case
In a 5-4 ruling, Justices found a Native American father had no right to take his daughter from a South Carolina couple
Making a Difference in Farah Province
FARAH Province — It’s been an amazing experience out here in western Afghanistan, where I spent the last nine months. I’ve had the opportunity to work with local communicators as a liaison to the local Provincial Reconstruction …
BattlelandNational Security
The Hastings-Snowden Axis: What’s Going On?
The tragic death of reporter Michael Hastings last week, and the flight of NSA leader Edward Snowden this week, suggest — crudely but effectively — why the center of U.S. national-security strategy is weakening.
What Airline Whistleblowers Have to Say About the New Theory on Flight 800
There may be enough smoking guns to warrant reopening the investigation
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
Pondering PTSD Progress
The beauty of last Saturday morning, so close by the Capitol’s gleaming dome, made the incongruity of discussing post-traumatic stress disorder all the more startling.
But that’s what we were there to do by commemorating …
Looming Student Loan Spike Stirs Controversy
Over seven million college students will see their subsidized student-loan rates double on July 1 if Congress can’t reach a compromise to avert the hike
Sniffing Out Allies
Staff Sgt. Alex sniffs for bombs among the bags of new Afghan police officers in Kunar province June 5.
The Great 1980s TIME Giveaway Gadgets
Once upon a time, there were TIME-branded tech products–lots of them. Here’s their story.
BattlelandIntelligence
When Something’s Not Quite Right
You might get a sense something’s a little fishy when Company 1 bids half the total of Company 2 for a year-long contract to “ensure that the ORION O2 program is successfully and seamlessly integrated onto the ORION Data …