The Veterans Affairs Innovation Initiative
Here's how I'll be spending the next two days, helping people start to move dramatically toward better serving veterans, particularly those wounded fi...
Here's how I'll be spending the next two days, helping people start to move dramatically toward better serving veterans, particularly those wounded fi...
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Palin's saying Obama wasn't acknowledging the sacrifices of our troops can mean only two things: either her mind exists on an entirely different planet, or she knows she's being completely disingenuous.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
In word-wise America, "sacrifice" has triumphed as the socially polite term for referring to the thousands of American lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, with no end in sight.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact
While embedded with Marines during the invasion of Iraq, journalist Mercedes Gallego was cautioned that it was not safe to be alone. The reason, the servicewomen explained, was fear of being raped.
Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The way we care for our veterans is a reflection of our society. We cannot neglect them in their own time of need, as we did following the Vietnam War.
The Washington Post | Ed O'Keefe | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Five years ago this week, an insurgent shot down the Army Black Hawk helicopter that Tammy Duckworth was co-piloting in Iraq. Now an assistant secreta...
Rick Allen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
To the schism arising in public attitudes about our foreign conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, we add the Ft. Hood reminder that military service raises dangers beyond reckoning for warriors.
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics
During the last administration, it took major scandals to get anything fixed in the Department, and then it was never corrected at this level.
Dawn Teo | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
During just the last fiscal year, VA executives received more than $4.3 million in bonuses.
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Bureaucratic delays have left veterans using the Post-9/11 GI Bill with no money to pay college bills. Patrick Campbell, chief legislative counsel fo...
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Thank heaven Joe Wilson voted repeatedly to cut veterans care and save us from modern day Leninism.
Hal Donahue | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Early in my service I was told, "When a jet crashes, often the boots are all we can find." Such was my not-so-subtle introduction to the need for end of life planning.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
What Arlen Specter's opportunistic party switch has taught us is you can take the Senator out of the Republican Party, but you can't take the predilection towards manufactured offense out of the Senator.
Jon Soltz | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
If government-run insurance and care is so evil and so horrible, then why do conservatives keep supporting leaving America's troops and veterans in that kind of system?
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Hundreds of veterans were in attendance recently to hear Obama and VA Secretary Shinseki promise that despite the rumors, VA health care will be protected.
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
The Department of Veterans' Affairs should ask Congress to fund the change required to install a VKO. Now that's change we could believe in!
Rachel Natelson | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
Many figures have decried the inequity of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the president and Congress to repeal the law. However, one community has remained resolutely silent: national veterans service organizations.
Joseph A. Violante | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
This Independence Day, we have a lot to celebrate, including a major, historic congressional victory for veterans.
Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
The stigma that veterans face has turned into widespread employment discrimination, precisely at a time when getting a job is especially difficult.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics
Hopefully, in between the barbecues and the parades, our citizens will reflect on both the physical and emotional challenges that our service women have -- and continue -- to face.
Christian Avard | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Their seclusion, combined with the military's history of gender discrimination and the uniquely challenging conditions in Iraq, has resulted in a mounting epidemic of sexual abuse, physical degeneration, and emotional distress.
Jon Soltz | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
In all three areas of veteran care, while there's a ton to still do, there's been dramatic improvement in Obama's first 100 days.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media
UPDATE 11:45pm The AP is reporting that the Veterans Affairs Department has agreed, following protests from various journalism groups, to return the ...
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
VA public relations officials demanded a reporter's microphone and recorder. They brought four armed, uniformed guards to enforce the order and wouldn't let him leave. Unacceptable.
Craig Newmark | Posted 12.13.2009 | Technology