Military Industrial Complex
Military families go hungry as US defense spending soars
Washington gleefully pours money into endless weapons build-ups, but the rank and file can't get help putting food on the table.
January 18, 2023
Andrea Mazzarino
North America
The massive, unseen costs of our post-9/11 wars at home and abroad
Most of the suffering doesn’t happen in the moment of combat amid the bullets, bombs, and IEDs on America’s foreign battlefields.
January 30, 2021
Washington Politics
The military is sick: a Navy spouse’s take on why we’re not getting better
Top Pentagon officials and the high command are prioritizing the maintenance of empire at the expense of protecting the very bodies that make up the armed services.
August 05, 2020
Global Crises
'The Shooters Are Coming!' War on Terror, War on Education
It's difficult to quantify the indirect human costs of war: mental illness or chronic injuries in people eternally grieving or struggling to adjust to worlds that have often been turned upside down.
December 24, 2019
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