In 2004, my mom wrote about what war costs—not just for those who fight, but for those who wait, worry, and live with the aftermath. Twenty-one years later, I’m sharing her words again, along with my reflections as a veteran, son, and father.
In the wealthiest country in human history, people are dying because they can’t afford insulin while billionaires buy elections. The ladder has no visible top and a functionally invisible bottom, and almost everyone is looking up at someone while looking down at someone else.
At the end of March, with the Iran war entering its second month and the casualty count already climbing, I attended the No Kings protest in Austin looking for veterans. I found plenty of them. After the piece ran at Slate I heard from several others who weren‘t at the protest but wanted to add…
W.P. Kinsella wrote that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. It may be one constant, but I’m reluctantly starting to think it’s not the only one.
We can afford a billion dollars a day for another war in the Middle East, but making sure a working mother can take her sick kid to the doctor? That’s where we draw the line on fiscal responsibility.
The Trump administration wants $50 billion to fund an unauthorized war in Iran. Democrats have one tool left to stop it, and some of them are thinking about giving it away.
Like most everything authoritarian regimes do, this latest sideshow stems from a place of fear. Trump is arguing for federal control because some states are producing outcomes that frighten him.
Alex Pretti’s death shows what happens when armed federal agents are given political cover to operate above the law and the public is told to ignore what it can plainly see. When the state kills in public and lies about it afterward, neutrality is no longer an option.
President Trump has a long history of disparaging members of the military who disagree with him. Back in 2015, he shrugged off John McCain’s five and a half years as a POW with “He’s not a war hero… I like people who weren’t captured,” and kept sniping at him even after he died. It runs…
No Kings. No Tyrants. No Excuses. My good friend Adam “Brick” House is a combat veteran and longtime activist. He’s served his country in uniform, worked on campaigns, marched in protests, and never sworn loyalty to any party, only to the Constitution. In this video, Adam calls on all of us—veterans, activists, and citizens who still believe…
“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”—Justice Louis Brandeis I wasn’t exactly Charlie Kirk’s biggest fan. I found him to be an annoying, performative MAGA agitator helping to usher in…
“You’re sick of the game!” Well, now, that’s a shame. You’re young and you’re brave and you’re bright.“You’ve had a raw deal!” I know — but don’t squeal, Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight.It’s the plugging away that will win you the day, So don’t be a piker, old pard!Just draw…
Treating the Constitution like an inconvenience isn’t how you protect a country - it’s how you dismantle it.
Kill yourself over an election result? To most adults that probably sounds completely irrational, but then again most adults aren’t queer teenagers living in Alabama.
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