As police everywhere roll through neighborhoods with battlefield hardware, an Afghanistan vet’s family learns there’s no escaping war.

Trump is sending an unambiguous message to a country in turmoil—and his armed supporters, from cops to vigilantes, hear it loud and clear.

As the coronavirus lockdown lifts, I visited the scene of the most notorious spring break party of the pandemic’s early days.

Trump’s childish nuclear gambling and obsessive jingoism have combined in a strategy that could end arms control as we know it.

The Pentagon’s ill-advised new “interim” recruiting policy could cause precisely the harm to service members that it seeks to avoid.

Amid a global oil collapse, the military is overpaying politically connected contractors to keep its jets fueled in Iraq.

The coronavirus pandemic is exactly the excuse Washington has been looking for to start a conflict with China.

Those of us affected by the AIDS epidemic know the importance—and dangers—of antibody testing.

Reports of the dictator’s death may be exaggerated, but his health is undeniably brittle, and so is his regime.

America’s gendered approach to “national security” means preparing for wars, not pandemics.

Should Las Vegas’s machine-gun rental industry be the future liberals want for assault weapons?

Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs are fighting a pandemic—and an antagonistic White House.

The bungled response to a coronavirus outbreak on an aircraft carrier reveals a deeper crisis among the president's obsequious military appointees.

As the state’s coronavirus curve rises, Ron DeSantis sticks up for anti-science preachers—and keeps churches open for Easter Sunday.

Emergency contagion measures are quickly eroding democracy worldwide.

Suicides, ship quarantines, confused commanders, and stranded families: The Pentagon’s war-weary ranks are fraying amid the pandemic.

On canceled weddings, Tom Clancy’s clairvoyance, and combat veterans on high alert

As the coronavirus racks the globe, White House lackeys and lobbyists are converging on the former Yugoslavia and reopening old wounds.

Countless lives in America, Iran, and Iraq depend on leaders’ willingness to put down the sabers and cooperate.

The Russian president is planning a lifetime tenure—and acting as a beacon for budding autocrats, from Turkmenistan to the Trump White House.