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...toll faced by the more than 1.6 million U.S. troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. In a comprehensive survey released this month by the think tank Rand Corporation, researchers concluded that nearly 20% of returning military personnel from these two fronts - about 300,000 service members - suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Left untreated, PTSD and depression could cost the nation as much as $6.2 billion in medical care and indirect costs during the two years that follow deployment, the Rand researchers estimated. "We need to remove the institutional cultural barriers that discourage soldiers from seeking care," says Terri...
Jimmy Carter has a mixed record on post-presidential peacemaking. He helped oust a Haitian dictator and set North Korea on a path to freezing its nuclear program in 1994 but later that year inked an unofficial cease-fire with Bosnian Serbs months before they slaughtered 8,000 Muslim civilians at Srebrenica. Now Carter has riled the Bush Administration by talking to leaders of the militant Palestinian group Hamas in Syria...
...fall, history professor Walter L. Johnson will seek to answer this question in his new course, “Bodily Functions: The History of Bare Life and Biopower.” Johnson said that those who enroll in his seminar will work through various approaches, including Marxism, cultural anthropology, post-modernism, and feminism to study different topics on the history of the body, “The idea is to think in a suggestive rather than exhaustive manner about the way that historians and social theorists have thought about the history of the body,” Johnson said. History...
...industry, for instance, surely welcomes the annual jump in demand for anti-migraine pills and other tranquilizers that anticipate Tax Day’s arrival. Perhaps the streets are safer with people locked up in their rooms reading bureaucratic gibberish, filing forms, or waiting in enormous lines at a post office...
...accepting Bush’s endorsement, McCain made a choice to stand together with the Bush administration. Attacking it now might seem like an easy way to stir up votes among those dissatisfied with Bush’s response post-Katrina, especially from those whose lives are still defined by the Katrina disaster. Yet just as McCain once called for circumspection in evaluating the government’s role in the aftermath of Katrina, he should call for circumspection again, this time from himself. Taking a step back from the campaign trail, McCain should recognize that his integrity and straight...