u.s. military

Unable to get an abortion during a tour of duty in Iraq, a soldier is left with no option but to do it herself—a humiliating but not uncommon dilemma. Women in the military are forced to obtain a leave to get the care they need; but if they’re honest about why, they put their military career in jeopardy. If they’re not, they put their military career in jeopardy.

RD associate editor Hussein Rashid scrutinizes a cross-section of reactions to the Ft. Hood massacre, from those eager to blame Islam to a number of Muslim-Americans.

The picture of Major Nidal Hasan grows murkier—but it is a mistake to assume that we understand the role of his faith in the massacre at Fort Hood.

That doesn’t stop rumor, innuendo, and profiling.

Those who denigrate the service of Muslims in the US military only compound the tragedy.

Rick Scarborough uses occasion to claim hate crimes law persecutes Christians.

Claim that alleged shooter took orders from the Muslim Brotherhood straight out of the Islamophobia playbook.

Nothing like dropping in a lot of trigger-happy hired guns to win hearts and minds, right?

From thermodynamic war, to cybernetic battle, to the emergence of the “chaoplexic,” a new book by Antoine Bousquet explains what war means in the modern era.

A complement to Gary Laderman’s column on the gun-as-sacred-object: scholar Lou Ruprecht’s scriptural encounter with the Second Amendment and the NRA in a gun debate gone astray.