5th senator slams blanket ethics waiver on for-profit college payments
U.S. Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware has become the fifth Democratic lawmaker to demand the Trump administration scrap its plan to waive a 50-year-old anticorruption law that prevents officials who...
View ArticleTrump administration now says it won’t scrap VA anti-corruption law
Faced with growing opposition from veterans groups, ethics experts and five U.S. senators, the Trump administration today abruptly abandoned its plan to suspend a 50-year-old anti-corruption law that...
View ArticleEthics watchdogs press VA, with anti-corruption law in the balance
Consumer groups, veterans advocates, ethics experts and union leaders continued to blast the Department of Veterans Affairs today for its plan to unilaterally scrap a 50-year-old anti-corruption...
View ArticleSenators want to examine military contracts with for-profit schools
Two U.S. senators have asked the Pentagon to hand over five years of sponsorship contracts between military bases and for-profit colleges, citing an exposé by Reveal from The Center for Investigative...
View ArticleVA’s mental health care crisis draws private firms pitching dubious PTSD...
After Wisconsin beer mogul Jake Leinenkugel was tapped by President Donald Trump in 2017 as a White House adviser on veterans’ issues, he quickly identified mental health care as a top priority,...
View ArticleHow ex-congressman Jeff Miller is single-handedly shaping the push to...
The Indian Treaty Room is a grand two-story meeting space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, with French and Italian marble wall panels, a pattern of stars on the...
View Article3 VA health workers have died of COVID-19. 776 have tested positive.
Workers in America’s largest health care system have begun to die in the coronavirus pandemic. As of Monday morning, three employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ sprawling health care system...
View ArticleVA hospitals are rationing protective gear, emails show. Congress wants to...
A group of eight House lawmakers fired off a letter to Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday accusing the White House of withholding vital information from Congress related to conditions inside the...
View ArticleHow Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
Corinne Adams’ son Charlie came home from school with notes from his teacher saying he was doing great in reading. But during the pandemic, Adams had to give him a reading test at home, and she...
View ArticleHow Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
Corinne Adams’ son Charlie came home from school with notes from his teacher saying he was doing great in reading. But during the pandemic, Adams had to give him a reading test at home, and she...
View ArticleBlack in the Sunshine State
Last summer, Reveal host Al Letson returned home to Jacksonville, Florida, to find a changed state. The Republican Legislature had passed a slate of laws targeting minority groups. Educators could now...
View ArticleAmerica Goes Psychedelic, Again
Psychedelic drugs have been illegal for 50 years, but they’re trickling back into the mainstream because they show promise in helping treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health...
View ArticleAmerica Goes Psychedelic, Again
Psychedelic drugs have been illegal for 50 years, but they’re trickling back into the mainstream because they show promise in helping treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health...
View ArticleTake No Prisoners
It was their first day in battle and the two best friends had just switched places. Bob Fordyce rested while Frank Hartzell crawled down into the shallow foxhole, taking his turn chipping away at the...
View ArticleIn Fallujah, We Destroyed Parts of Ourselves
It’s been 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with...
View ArticleExclusive: Trump Fired This Top Watchdog. Now He’s Speaking Out.
Fraud, waste, and abuse: That’s what inspectors general are tasked with investigating throughout the federal government. For decades, these watchdogs have been a key layer of oversight, working to...
View ArticleIn Fallujah, We Destroyed Parts of Ourselves
It’s been just over 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was...
View ArticleAn Atrocity of War Goes Unpunished
In November 2005, a group of US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them became one of the most high-profile war crimes prosecutions in US history—but then it fell apart....
View ArticleIbram X. Kendi vs. America’s “Antiracism Backlash”
Just a few years ago, historian and activist Ibram X. Kendi seemed to be everywhere. At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, he became one of the leading voices on racism in America—and...
View ArticleTeaching Kids to Read: How One School District Gets It Right
The schools in Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual—in fact, it’s almost unheard of. In a country where nearly 40 percent of fourth graders struggle to read at even a basic level,...
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