This Veterans Day, NPR's Leila Fadel sits down for a conversation with reporter Quil Lawrence and Iraq War veteran Dave Carlson to discuss what it means to live through war.
The Iraq War didn’t just end on the battlefield — for many, it never ended at all. This is the story of one man whose life unraveled after the war, from the trauma he brought home to the battles he ...
Southern Illinois University’s Department of Theater and Dance brought raw emotion and thought-provoking storytelling to the ...
I don’t know how to explain the war to myself,” says a veteran of the Iraq war. In 2003, they were sent to Iraq. Two decades ...
Cheney’s calm demeanor and soft-spoken manner belied a man overstuffed with arrogance and hubris. His imperial vice ...
Cheney dramatically expanded the use of White House executive power in selling and waging one of the most disastrous and ...
The U.S. invaded Iraq 10 years ago Tuesday. It was almost déjà war: the nation had done pretty much the same thing 12 years before, but the goal that time was limited to kicking Saddam Hussein‘s ...
Opinion

The Rise and Fall of Dick Cheney

For his entire first term, Bush had ceded control of foreign policy to Cheney and Rumsfeld. After he won reelection, Bush started taking back some of that power. Realizing that the Iraq war was going ...
Dick Cheney, one of the most important figures in America’s neo-conservative movement, has died at the age of 84. Cheney had ...