Tommy Tuberville Is Just the Face of a ‘Broken’ Confirmation Process, Critics Say
WASHINGTON — Anger over Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade of high-ranking military promotions may have hit a boiling point this week, as a handful of fellow Republicans began to publicly pressure the former football coach to spike his nine-month-long stunt. Calling the blockade a “national security suicide mission,” Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska spent hours on […]
‘Last Stop USA’: How the Army Is Trying to Fill in for a Broken Education System
Nearly every student, sitting at desks in Army uniforms at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, had a similar story. The public schools they came from were crumbling: There were holes in the walls, books held together with duct tape, few computers, not enough teachers and failing air conditioning that made paying attention in class impossible in […]
