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The Truth About ICE’s Recruiting Push

January 24, 2026

A group of masked immigration-enforcement officers stand outside in the snow

Trump Just Made Burning the Flag a Little Easier

August 30, 2025

An illustration showing an American flag with a lit matchstick for a pole

The ‘Dirty and Nasty People’ Who Became Americans

Lindsay Chervinsky

July 4, 2025

An embroidered portrait of George Washington next to the faded blue silk flag that indicated his presence on the Revolutionary War battlefield.

The Three Marine Brothers Who Feel ‘Betrayed’ by America

Xochitl Gonzalez

June 27, 2025

Members of the armed forces march forward, the back of their heads just barely out of frame

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Why Won’t the Pentagon Own Up to Trump’s Latest Move?

David A. Graham

June 12, 2025

A group of soldiers stands in front of a Jumbotron showing Donald Trump at a podium above them

A PTSD Therapy ‘Seemed Too Good to Be True’

June 2, 2025

An illustration of a veteran with PTSD

I Remember

William H. McRaven

May 26, 2025

A photo of a man wearing camouflage, illuminated against a dark background

What Shakespeare Got Right About PTSD

March 21, 2025

Two old drawings, one of a man in front of columns and one of mounted soldiers in battle, with a red cross over the two

‘What About Six Years of Friendship and Fighting Together?’

March 17, 2025

A mom ties her daughter's hair into a ponytail while a father holds their son.

The Modern Voice of War Writing

March 2025 Issue

Long line of gray soldiers in desolate field, behind one somber mustached-soldier's face turning back toward the reader

Mark Robinson’s Dereliction of Duty

David A. Graham

August 30, 2024

The Meaning of ‘Sir’ and ‘Ma’am’

November 14, 2023

Black-and-white photo of soldiers of the 369th Battalion

Putting Armed Veterans Into Schools Is Madness

June 8, 2022

Veterans standing beneath a raised American flag

‘Do Not Abandon the Afghans’

August 19, 2021

Soldiers in Afghanistan

Trump Orders ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Depressed Veterans

August 23, 2019

Mist from nasal spray

Where Veterans Aren’t Thanked for Their Service

August 6, 2019

Ranks of German soldiers in military camouflage face the camera with sober expressions.