by Daniel DePetris If there is one piece of legislation Congress prioritizes every year, it’s the annual government spending bill. After the usual last-minute hiccups over amendments, the Senate finally […]
Tag: military-industrial complex
We’re poisoning ourselves with war
by Robert C. Koehler EDITOR’S NOTE: Leonard Pitts is on vacation this week. His next column will appear on Jan. 6. War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the […]
Disappointing 2022 Pentagon budget
by Elizabeth Shackelford On Dec. 15, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual legislation authorizing the yearly defense budget. At $768 billion, it breezed through the House […]
America’s depleted industrial base is a security crisis
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address is most famous for its warning against the “unwarranted influence” of the military-industrial complex. But Eisenhower also stressed the defense industry’s importance to the […]
$1.7T goof would’ve paid for infrastructure
by Will Bunch A Ferrari is surely a wonderful sports car, but let’s be honest: Most of us couldn’t afford the day-to-day maintenance, let alone the sticker price, and these […]
