Move over, e-mail. The virtual greeting just won't cut it this holiday season, as the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowles have teamed up for the thir...
Wall Street Journal | By YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The Army's top generals worry that surging tens of thousands more troops into Afghanistan could increase the strain felt by many military personnel af...
AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 11.01.2009 | Style
BY CHRISTINE SIMMONS, AP WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Saturday doled out presidential M&Ms and dried fr...
Ron Kovic | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Many of us who served in Vietnam promised ourselves long ago that we would never again allow what happened to us in that war to ever happen again. We have an obligation to protest. To speak out.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
With the noise clogging the media landscape, it's hard to get the public to pay attention to anything important. Fortunately, some extremely talented musicians are working to change that.
Jeremiah Workman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
Nutcase. Psycho. Unbalanced. These are some of the words I've been tagged with since being diagnosed with PTSD. Our society's image of the returning warrior with PTSD has been framed by Hollywood.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
Obama made an important point, saying that while innovation and discovery have always been part of the American DNA, there is no guarantee that we will lead the world in clean energy.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
I left home a week after my first child was born to serve my country honorably in Afghanistan, and Pennsylvania State Representative Deryl Metcalfe thinks I'm a traitor.
David Roberts | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Since the summer, greens have had one good break after another. Unlike after An Inconvenient Truth, the latest dramas are not pop culture events, but political achievements inside the Beltway.
Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact
Michelle Obama paid a visit to the Veterans Affairs headquarters on Tuesday, part of a tour of all cabinet department headquarters, and thanked VA emp...
Joel Epstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Sun Valley Adaptive Sports (SVAS) is a nonprofit project funded by the Annenberg Foundation to support wounded warriors with their recovery and reintegration into society.
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
Soldier On is an organization that works to get homeless veterans off the streets and into housing. One particular housing project will use photovoltaic technology to power its 39 apartments.
Posted 10.20.2009 | Impact
Miller Lite is promoting Veteran's Day in a significant way this year, with a goal to raise $500,000 for Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that support...
Jonathan Powers | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
Hundreds of veterans like myself have joined forces with a coalition of nation security organizations to form Operation FREE to raise awareness about the links between climate change and national security.
Jeremiah Workman | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
I learned the hard way that the war doesn't stop when our boots touch home soil again, it just changes form. We're tough guys who don't need help. For generations, that's been the ethos in the military.
Aaron Glantz | Posted 10.15.2009 | Home
More than 30,000 single mothers have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army, the most heavily deployed branch of the military, gives women just four months to stay stateside with their newborns.
AP | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home
LYNN, Ind. — An ex-Marine who served in Iraq has been charged with three counts of attempted murder of a police officer after firing on police. ...
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...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
A ratings chase and a revenue chase combine to coarsen the debate. This is our new reality -- and some days it looks so ugly one could reasonably turn away from civic life. But we don't.
Katie Halper | Posted 11.29.2009 | Comedy
Like my fellow American patriots, I refuse to sit by while the Nazi Marxist President sends storm troops of Dr Mengeles to pull the plug on millions of grannies.
Michael D. Brown | Posted 11.27.2009 | Denver
Tim Masters has been busy trying to rebuild his life after almost ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Now he does not have access to the GI benefits he deserves.
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...
Hal Donahue | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
For 150 veterans assembled at the White House, the greatest immediate and long term threat to our national security is climate change and energy policy.
Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact