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It is easy to at first brush to dismiss something by a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter being published in The Atlantic, that was my first reaction as well when I saw the headline from James Fallows’s latest, The Tragedy of the American Military. The Atlantic...

By Lian Bunny, Sami Edge and Hillary Davis News21 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Beth Vang grew up with a conflicted view of civic life. Vang, a 21-year-old college student, lives near St. Paul, Minnesota, in one of the largest Hmong communities in the U.S. In...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has declared its support for requiring women to register for the military draft, a symbolic but significant shift that reflects the U.S. military’s evolution from a male-dominated force to one seeking to incorporate...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has tapped Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, a prominent military strategist known as a creative thinker, as his new national security adviser, replacing the ousted Michael Flynn. Trump announced the pick Monday...

Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it. Democrats passed discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery. Democrats seceded from the Union in 1861...