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Ann Jones offers the best kind of thank you to veterans in a new heartbreaking book that details the home-front impact of our ill-considered wars, that when soldiers come home, they arrive 'on stretchers, in boxes, in altered states of mind'
Just when you thought the conversation over government spending had moved firmly from the executive branch to the legislative, Christopher Hellman, a military spending analyst with progressive think tank the National Priorities Project, comes in with a fresh take on President Obama’s budget proposal.