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Veterans Affairs
November 30, 2021
Magazine
Jasper Craven
A Dark-Money Team of Trump Cronies Is Cooking Up a Scandal at Biden’s VA
Fox News' Pete Hegseth, former Veterans Affairs officials, and a Koch-backed group are ganging up to accuse the agency of “cancel culture” and even “killing its veterans.”
September 10, 2021
Bryan Box
The Things We Carried Home
We veterans survived the post-9/11 wars through dumb luck. Surviving the aftermath was another story.
February 4, 2021
Magazine
Jasper Craven
How the Military Turns Troops Into Extremists
Why are veterans trying to tear down the country they once swore to protect?
July 9, 2020
Jasper Craven
Inside the VA’s Long-Standing Racism Problem
A Confederate-friendly Trump appointee and an involuntary Juneteenth dress-up are just the latest in a long history of indignities for black veterans and caregivers.
April 15, 2020
Jasper Craven
Trump’s War on VA Workers Is Exposing Them to the Coronavirus
Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs are fighting a pandemic—and an antagonistic White House.
January 30, 2020
Bryan Box
The Lies We Tell About Soldiers’ Traumatic Brain Injuries
A combat veteran on what Trump doesn't understand about the "invisible wounds" suffered by soldiers in the Iranian attack
November 12, 2019
Matt Farwell
The Veterans Day Freebie Anti-PTSD Diet
Armed with the VA's list of discounts and deals, one vet tried to turn the tables and consume this holiday that was consuming him, year after year.
November 11, 2019
Bryan Box
Ghosts of War in a Wisconsin Forest
An Afghanistan veteran's struggle with ecology and memory
November 22, 2016
Magazine
Jennifer Percy
The Things They Burned
A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.
June 2, 2014
Brian Beutler
The GOP's Veterans Health Care Trap
How politicking the VA scandal without a plan to improve care could backfire
May 30, 2014
Brian Beutler
The Eric Shinseki Resignation Guide
Vulnerable Democrats want him gone. John Boehner doesn't. Gaming out everybody's stand.
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