Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA While attention remains focused on the looming crisis of Department of Veterans Affairs employees facing termination, an even...
We Fought for This Country. Don't Cut the One Department That Fights for Us. On June 6 -- D-Day -- thousands of veterans will rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., united by a shared message...
Veterans’ Protests Planned for D-Day Latest in Nearly 250 Years of Fighting for Their Benefits Veterans were not always politically popular, nor were they treated well by the federal government.
The Fatal Cost of Twisting Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's firing of top intelligence analysts sets a very bad precedent.
Women Have Served with Honor for Decades. This Administration Can't Erase That History. Women put up with inappropriate and demeaning comments, the challenges and the intimidating moments as the only woman in the...
Lessons Not Learned As this is being written on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the final end of the Vietnam War, that history is...
Access to Care Could Have Saved My Son's Life. Other Vets Should Have a Chance. Long wait times aren't always an option for mental-health care, so the Community Care Program is often a lifeline veterans...
Want Efficiency? Fund the VA and Cut the Proven Waste in Privatized Veterans Care Faithfully following orders from President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) office, VA Secretary...
Don't Dishonor Veterans with Broken Promises and Empty Gestures It's time to get back in step with the veteran community -- not with fanfare, but with follow-through.
Children In Military Families Face Unique Psychological Challenges, and the Barriers to Getting Help Add to the Strain The military promotes a culture of self-reliance and resiliency under pressure – and for good reasons. But for many military...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
VA Study: Ozempic, Other GLP-1 Drugs May Fight Addiction Across Every Major Substance For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1...
US Navy Sends Submarines Under Arctic Ice for 100th Time in Milestone Exercise The U.S. Navy has reached a Cold War-era milestone in the Arctic, deploying two Virginia-class submarines beneath the polar...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
