The State Department Needs a Watchdog—Now, Not Later
A Foreign Service whistle-blower is doing her best to fight promotion irregularities. But she should have an inspector general to back her up. More »
D.B. Grady is the coauthor of Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. He can be found online at dbgrady.com. More
D.B. Grady is the pseudonym of author David Brown. He is coauthor of The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army (Wiley, 2012) and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry (Wiley, 2013). He is a graduate of Louisiana State University, a former U.S. Army paratrooper, and a veteran of Afghanistan. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
A Foreign Service whistle-blower is doing her best to fight promotion irregularities. But she should have an inspector general to back her up. More »
Jessica Soffer talks about her beautiful debut novel, Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots. More »
The intelligence brief on the apparent accident was three sentences long, and it scared the hell out of White House officials.
What the treatment of the WikiLeaks detainee says about our government's most damning secret More »
It will take decades to break the vault of Dick Cheney's secrets. More »
Think a tsunami is bad? Here's a giant rock. More »
Sean Ferrell's second novel addresses what it means to really look at yourself, literally. More »
Two branches of the U.S. military are locked in a property battle worthy of Google and Apple. More »
In order to connect with a new audience, 'Star Wars' needs to catch up with the modern political zeitgeist. More »
A conversation with author Dan Josefson about the evolution of his debut novel and its ringing endorsement from David Foster Wallace More »
Paula Bomer's debut novel, "Nine Months," examines how having a baby changes an artist's life. More »
Stephan Talty's 'Agent Garbo' sheds light on an amateur spy who saved the world. More »
A new Louisiana law requires convicted sexual deviants to note their past on their profiles. More »
Arcane legal theories interfered with the credibility and efficiency of the Obama administration and frustrated the soldiers trying to fight terror overseas. More »
A conversation with Jennifer Miller about her new novel More »
How writer Jen Deaderick took inspiration from Occupy Wall Street, founded the #UseThe19th campaign, and mobilized women across all social platforms to fight for reproductive rights. More »
The film that started as a recruiting video gives Naval Special Warfare its due. More »
The game's commercial trivializes war to an extreme, setting a new low for video game advertising. More »
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