Iraq and Afghanistan veterans wouldn't have to show any link between their service and a long list of medical conditions to obtain government-funded healthcare.
Russia’s threats to reach into Transnistria could be a cheap distraction or an expansion of the conflict.
Mourn the end of a too-brief interlude of relative peace and prosperity.
GAO: Congress has been buying planes that lack crucial parts and haven't undergone full testing, so costly upgrades will eventually be needed.
The proposed defense budget reaches $813 billion, and politicians still can’t think critically about how to spend it.
The president's new budget plan calls on Congress to tax wealthy Americans' unrealized capital gains.
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
The president's anticipated executive order stopped short of feared regulations but suggests federal unease with uncontrolled development.
Congress continues to allocate funds to produce weapons that the Pentagon itself says it doesn't need.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has barred men aged 18-60 from leaving the country.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
Western governments made promises they didn’t keep and offered assurances they can’t fulfill.
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
The drop in public trust has finally come for the Pentagon too.
After disappointment in Afghanistan, Americans show no eagerness for a new conflict.
We can't afford to keep funding defense contractors' cost overruns.
Why is registration for involuntary servitude still a thing?
With minimal debate, Selective Service was doubled in a "must-pass" $778 billion defense bill.
We may have misinterpreted 9/11 as a harbinger, when it was really just an outlier.
Historian Stephen Wertheim says two decades of failed wars have finally made America more likely to embrace military restraint.
It’s unclear what a military intervention could even accomplish.
Whistleblowers and publishers are crucial for keeping government officials reasonably honest.
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Thank the troops, but question the uses to which they’re put.
Neither side needs military aid funded by U.S. taxpayers.
A significant portion of the world views the U.S. as a threat to democracy in their home countries.
We’ll have to pay attention this time to ensure a conclusion to the accidental forever war.
Joe Biden doesn’t have to feel bad about bringing the troops home if he lets the persecuted come here.
Many U.S. complaints about China aren’t about actions that threaten U.S. security.
The strike was probably legal (as were similar small-scale strikes by Trump). But there are serious constitutional problems with the overall US military presence in Syria.
Anne-Marie Slaughter hasn’t given up on intervention and the “responsibility to protect” doctrine.
What should come next for the U.S.-Saudi Arabia relationship
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Auditors now say the military may be able to pass an audit before the end of the next decade, so at least that's something.
If we can't trim the Pentagon's budget this year, will we ever?
Giving one man control of all nuclear weapons is a mistake.
Selling weapons to the UAE would stamp brutality and extremism abroad with American approval.
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Much of the military spending in the GOP's HEALS Act replaces funding that was redirected to pay for Trump's border wall.
"Absent policy changes, the federal government continues to face an unsustainable long-term fiscal path," America's top auditor warns. But is anyone listening?
Donald Trump, Democrats, and Republicans agree on trillion-dollar deficits for as far as the eye can see.
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Neither party is serious about reining in spending. This is unsustainable.
Despite the failure, Pentagon officials are spinning the audit as a step in the right direction.
He's wrong on both counts.
An ever-growing military budget is yet another illustration of the GOP's abandonment of small-government principles. And Democrats aren't any better.
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