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  • How is John McCain like John Kerry?

    Hint: Members of the POW community -- ex-prisoners, their families and the families of those still unaccounted for -- have issues with him.
    By Mark Benjamin January 29, 2008

  • A bizarre turn on the investigative trail

    Recently I got a hot tip about U.S. war crimes in Iraq. It led me to some very cold, very weird places.
    By Mark Benjamin January 23, 2008

  • Bush's careless choice for Iraq vets

    The president's nominee to head Veterans Affairs oversaw a military healthcare crisis long before the Walter Reed scandal.
    By Mark Benjamin November 5, 2007

  • You must remember this

    Ken Burns makes deeply emotional films that pluck America's chords of memory. In the case of World War II, this approach feels absolutely right.
    By Gary Kamiya September 25, 2007

  • The killing of Jamie Dean

    Police in rural Maryland staged a military stakeout and shot a troubled Army vet. As his family plans to sue, they are asking how a soldier being treated for PTSD could be shipped to Iraq.
    By Julia Dahl September 5, 2007

  • Ari Fleischer's misleading message

    Freedom's Watch, the former press secretary's new pro-Iraq war group, has little to do with veterans and everything to do with politics.
    By Joe Conason August 24, 2007

  • One U.S. soldier who must be counted

    Veterans of the Iraq war, including heroic Army Cpl. Frank Sandoval, are dying here in America too.
    By L. Okey Onyejekwe Jr. June 22, 2007

  • Veterans group comes out in favor of antiwar vet

    The country's largest combat veterans organization is supporting a former Marine who faces disciplinary action for wearing a military uniform during an antiwar protest.
    By Alex Koppelman June 1, 2007

  • Edwards' insensitive move

    While one can oppose the war and still support the troops, the presidential candidate's call for antiwar protests on Memorial Day is a bad idea.
    By Joe Conason May 18, 2007

  • Getting blown up, again and again

    U.S. soldiers traumatized by Iraq are combating PTSD with a virtual reality treatment that plunges them back into the war zone.
    By Eilene Zimmerman May 16, 2007

  • The Pentagon's chronic neglect of Iraq vets

    Military officials knew long ago about the failure to take care of America's war wounded at the beleaguered Walter Reed hospital.
    By Mark Benjamin April 25, 2007

  • New Walter Reed questions

    Democratic senators ask why the government failed to respond to 2004 warning about hospital conditions.
    By Mark Benjamin April 13, 2007

  • Injured troops shipped back into battle

    Salon has uncovered further evidence that the military sent soldiers with acute post-traumatic stress disorder, severe back injuries and other serious war wounds back to Iraq.
    By Mark Benjamin April 9, 2007

  • Argentina's own abandoned veterans

    Twenty-five years ago this band of brothers was sent to fight an unwinnable war, only to be deserted by their government.
    By Jens Glüsing April 4, 2007

  • The face of war

    Photojournalist Nina Berman discusses her award-winning portrait of disfigured Iraq vet Ty Ziegel and his fiancée, Renee, on their wedding day -- and what was really going on behind the lens.
    By Lindsay Beyerstein March 10, 2007

  • Walter Reed, on the cheap

    The Pentagon's top civilian official in charge of military healthcare wanted more money for bullets and bombs, and fewer benefits for soldiers.
    By Mark Benjamin March 6, 2007

  • The long-term wounds of Walter Reed

    Despite military officials' "surprise" at recent coverage, Salon exposed inadequate care and an overwhelmed system unfriendly to vets beginning two years ago.
    By Mark Benjamin February 23, 2007

  • More on Walter Reed

    The Washington Post's series on the poor conditions for hospitalized Iraq war veterans explores a subject very familiar to Salon readers.
    By Joan Walsh February 20, 2007

  • Post-traumatic futility disorder

    Disillusionment with war is an overlooked psychological liability on the battlefield, experts say -- and could lead to higher rates of PTSD among U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
    By Mark Benjamin December 21, 2006

  • The real insult to our troops: Bush

    Kerry's handling of his botched joke was pathetic -- but it can't match the president's lethal stupidity in his handling of the Iraq war.
    By Joe Conason November 3, 2006

  • Bulletproof politics

    In a powerful TV ad, Iraq and Afghanistan vets attack Republicans who voted against funds for body armor. GOP, beware. Dems, wake up.
    By Joe Conason September 29, 2006

  • It's about competence, among other things

    If the Bush administration is so concerned about Americans' privacy, why did the VA wait two weeks to report data theft?
    By Tim Grieve May 24, 2006

  • "I've been in combat too long"

    Former Sen. Max Cleland blasts the "total folly" of Iraq -- and says he still hasn't gotten over the GOP smears that ended his political career.
    By Bill Katovsky April 3, 2006

  • Iraq sticker shock

    Caring for seriously wounded soldiers and other hidden costs could push the price tag of Bush's Iraq war to a staggering $2 trillion, a new study claims.
    By Mark Benjamin January 11, 2006

  • A good day for veterans

    The V.A. canceled its controversial plan Thursday to review vets who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
    By Mark Benjamin November 11, 2005
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