Hollywood at War
There is a scene in the 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives when Homer Parrish, played by real World War II veteran Harold Russell, shows his girl what it is like to dress himself for bed with the rudimentary metal hooks that have replaced his left and right...
Return Our Weekend Warriors
If George W. Bush – notorious for skipping his Texas Air National Guard drills during the Vietnam War – were in the Guard today, he'd be up in the air without a propeller. That's because today's National Guard has become virtually indistinguishable from the nation's...
Killer Cocktail: PTSD and Your Local Police
VoteVets.org Crosses the Line
The Rape of the Afghan Boys
Richard Holbrooke: Bulldozer Stuck in the Mud
Strobe Talbott once called Richard Holbrooke the "diplomatic equivalent of a hydrogen bomb." Oh, the many ways we could interpret that today. When Talbott, Bill Clinton's deputy secretary of state and a friend of Holbrooke, made that comment to the New York...
Buzzkill at the Tea Party
They were certainly not the proudest moments in what has been called the Tea Party Movement: activists on Capitol Hill this weekend to oppose the Democratic health-care bill accused of slinging the N-bomb at black lawmakers, screaming "baby killer" at Rep....
