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You may want to think twice before your next visit to the doctor’s office. According to Dr. Barbara Starfield’s now-famous study, iatrogenic deaths (those resulting from treatment by physicians or […]
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The idea that there will be some sort of mutiny or resistance when “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is repealed is “ridiculous.”
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Some things need to remain classified, like the President’s travel schedule, the location of nuke sites, or the names of Afghan informants.
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There is a profound, troubling disconnect where we have essentially created a warrior class. That’s damaging to our social fabric and our nation. When you can send folks to war […]
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Our soldiers aren’t robots; they are tired and worn out, and when they return home, they are returning to record unemployment.
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a signature wound of our current wars. It may have impacted hundreds of thousands of people who have cycled through Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Hollywood and the media portray veterans as either villains or victims, says the IAVA founder.
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We need to fight the stereotype that veterans are all ticking time bombs.
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The 2.2 million men and women who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11 are a heterogeneous bunch, from different backgrounds both economically and politically.
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A conversation with the Iraq war veteran and IAVA founder.
The opening weekend of Eat, Pray, Love is being billed as a success, earning $23 million and second only to Sly Stallone’s action ensemble The Expendables at $35 million. Not […]
The economic recession of the past few years has had a real effect on the way fiction writers are writing, says novelist Rick Moody. Writers are more “desperate” than they […]
Research suggests that promiscuity is not associated with increased happiness and, in fact, that the number of sexual partners needed to maximize happiness is exactly one.
“Painting is a battlefield… about what is, what is not, what ought to be, what I like, what I hate, what I love,” says Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca, subject of […]
Imagine watching the sun go down on October 24, and living in complete darkness straight through to when it finally rises again on the 8th of March. Imagine 40 below […]
If you look up “Obama Accomplishments” on Google right now, you will see my blog, Brown Man Thinking Hard, pop up on the first page of results. This is normally […]
One of the topics I will be covering at Age of Engagement is the growth and impact of what has been called the New Atheist movement, a collection of authors […]
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Writing courses and MFA programs make it easy to talk about a story if it proceeds in a way that is demonstrably similar to stories past. This means the really […]
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“The unhappier parts of my career enabled me to say the more trenchant things,” says the novelist. But “if I’m not happy enough to finish the book … it doesn’t […]
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Fiction writers are more desperate than ever, says the novelist. Scared that they’re not going to get published, they’re trying to shoehorn themselves into rigid—”sellable”—formats.