Half of the officers who have been fired or blocked from promotion are women or Black. A scholar who studies the US military explains why that’s dangerous.
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The military newspaper earned credibility by informing troops about the good, the bad and everything in between. But the Pentagon’s recent crackdown on the paper is putting that trust to the test.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels.
Masculinism, an extreme version of men’s rights, is led by very different far-right figures, from Andrew Tate to the leader of Pete Hegseth’s church.
Testosterone testing for soldiers sounds simple, but a low result rarely tells you why – or what to do about it.
Two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional in the military, an outbreak has led several branches of the military to make it mandatory again.
Defence Minister Chris Penk has inadvertently highlighted a major tension between increased defence spending and New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy.
Loyalty outranks expertise, and reality bends to the leader’s word. From Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, fascist war machines collapse on the same contradictions.
The president’s barrage of pronouncements on foreign policy mean his Cabinet members’ statements on foreign policy have become more reliable indicators of administration positions.
The US military helped create the first flu vaccine to keep service members in action – and the logic for requiring vaccination has not changed.
How can the ostensibly evangelical Pete Hegseth place Quentin Tarantino on the same footing as the word of God? An example from the early 11th century provides clues.
When government officials hold prayer services, quote scripture and engage in religious proselytizing at the workplace, is it religious freedom – or an old-fashioned First Amendment violation?
Donald Trump’s AI image of himself looking like Jesus has been widely derided as blasphemous. But what exactly is blasphemy?
Trump’s language of war is a dangerous fusion of militarism, religious fundamentalism, spectacle and authoritarian politics that is redefining how military power is justified and normalized.
Hegseth is a member of the CREC, whose beliefs are rooted in a 20th-century movement called Christian Reconstructionism. The movement calls for the implementation of biblical law.
By resurrecting statues toppled in protests during his first term, Donald Trump wants to reverse attempts to ‘erase history’. But history is never that simple.
In Donald Trump’s second term he and his advisers have repeatedly questioned US involvement in translatlantic security.
Politicians from all three Abrahamic religions are using scripture to back their positions.
Continuing his war against what he calls “fake news”, the US president is hobbling journalists and media outlets he considers to be hostile to him.
Since the U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran began, damage to cultural heritage has raised legal concerns—and may undermine the campaign’s strategic aims.
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