I’ve never heard a shot fired in anger. But I might know a little bit more about war than Sebastian Junger. Previously…
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Residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are livid with BP in the wake of the massive, never-ending oil spill in the Gulf…
In the nineteenth century, it was a fort used by British forces. In the twentieth century, Soviet troops moved into the crumbling…
One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province,…
In his book on World War II in the Pacific, War Without Mercy, John Dower tells an extraordinary tale about the changing…
Despite recent large-scale insurgent suicide bombings that have killed scores of civilians and the fact that well over 100,000 U.S. troops are…
In recent weeks, President Obama has been contemplating the future of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. He has also been touting the…
When the Nobel Committee awarded its annual peace prize to President Barack Obama, it afforded him a golden opportunity seldom offered to…
A week ago, two convicted mass murderers leaped back into public consciousness as news coverage of their stories briefly intersected. One was…
In May, the U.S. economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.9% to 9.4%. According to official statistics, 14.5…