Live stream and play-by-play of the women's free skate at the 2026 World Figure Skating Championships

After weeks of threats, the United States, joined by Israel, has launched military strikes against Iran. It remains to be seen whether these strikes will be fairly limited, or are the opening of an ex...

The children attended the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and forced to assimilate to white society as a matter of U.S. ...

Tuesday is Orange Shirt Day, when communities honor the survivors of U.S. Indian boarding schools and their descendants.

Emergency response’s newfound sluggishness, explained by earthquakes and landslides.

The military is not a cereal box to be ‘rebranded’

National Guard troops called to Washington, D.C. face complex legal rules on the streets. The rules would be even vaguer in other cities.

Like any federal enclave, the federal government has plenary power over the District of Columbia. But Congress has delegated most of that power to local officials; it would take new laws to undo that.

Reflections on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on its 80th anniversary.

Merging activism and education in the LGBTQIA+ security professional space.

"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law," then-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the June 26, 2015, ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. "The Constitution grants them that right."

Given the country’s past, cultural resistance to becoming a soldier is high. Can leaders change minds to meet a changing world?

Are countries that use conscription more restrained in their use of military force? A common argument holds that military conscription restrains leaders from us...

Jeremy Greenberg was in charge of coordinating federal help after hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes and other emergencies. He has resigned from leading FEMA's National Response Coordination Center.

President Donald Trump's announcement is the administration's latest move in its concerted effort to shift the people and values honored by the military.

Perhaps the problem is not that young people are insufficiently patriotic, but that they have been fighting a war, daily, for their entire lives.