The Memorial Day holiday makes the news of abuses and preventable deaths in the veterans medical system even more poignant.

Advertised as “the flagship international educational exchange program” of US cultural diplomacy, the Fulbright Program is now in the path of the State Department’s torpedoes.

An imperial era is on the wane, war is in absentia and there are no rising great power contenders on the horizon. That’s a remarkable scorecard in an otherwise appalling world.

A DoD initiative to educate the public on the history of the Vietnam War is misleading.

Our senior writer remembers what the folksinger's music meant to him.

Guest host Phil Donahue examines the consequences of an American intervention in Syria with guests Deborah Amos and Andrew Bacevich.

The NPR Middle East correspondent tells guest host Phil Donahue about the growing refugee crisis in Syria -- one that the U.N. has called “the great tragedy of this century."

The military historian and Vietnam veteran talks with guest host Phil Donahue about the questions that need answers before the U.S. intervenes in Syria.

Michael Winship describes the Washington, D.C., he first encountered 45 years ago -- a city very different from the one we know today.

"What does it say about a society when its morals and ethics on the treatment of captives go into reverse?" asks writer Nick Turse.