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Even in good times, life for poor working women can be an obstacle-filled struggle to get by. In bad times, it can…
Nick Turse
Nick Turse is the managing editor of TomDispatch and a fellow at the Type Media Center. He is the author most recently of Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan and of the bestselling Kill Anything That Moves.
The message is simple. Ever more Americans need food they can’t afford. As tough economic times take their toll, increasing numbers of…
When Barack Obama traveled to Elkhart, Indiana, to push his $800 billion economic recovery package two weeks ago, he made the former…
The body count is still rising. For months on end, marked by bankruptcies, foreclosures, evictions, and layoffs, the economic meltdown has taken…
On paper, every session looked like gold to me. Technology and the Warfighter. Neuroscience and Its Potential Applications. Lethality Technologies. Autonomous/Unmanned Systems.…
Is it possible that one of the Pentagon’s contractors has a tripartite business model for our tough economic times: one division that…
Nations in flux are nations in need. A new president will soon take office, facing hard choices not only about two long-running…
Wars, bases, and money. The three are inextricably tied together. In the 1980s, for example, American support for jihadis like Osama bin…
On October 4, 2008, in the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles, Karthik Rajaram, beset by financial troubles, shot his wife, mother-in-law,…
[Introduction: What a difference four and a half years makes. When I first penned "The Wild Weapons of DARPA," in March 2004,…