What a Hell of a Way to Die

In the aftermath of the tragic and horrendous massacres in New Zealand, we witnessed what you might describe as performative innocence on the part of people who traffic in Islamophobia. However, some young heroes were not having it — yes, we’re...

This week, Francis and Nate discuss two new military-related stories that will likely bring comically unintended consequences. First, the Army intends to assign lieutenants to basic training units as platoon leaders. Which lieutenants? Well, all of...

This week, Francis speaks with Army veteran and sociology student  about what it’s like on the Army post where he lives as a military dependent. The Army offers free housing to military families, but what you may not know is that on many posts...

How did a white supremacist spend 30 years in the US military? Well, he enlisted, and then he reenlisted. This week, Nate and Francis discuss a recent story that appeared in Vice on the topic of a Coast Guard lieutenant with a kill list. Additionally,...

This week, Francis did some damn journalism. He interviewed Joe Haldeman, author of the 1974 sci-fi masterpiece ‘The Forever War,’ about his Army service and how it informed his writing (and about blowing things up with C4). We really hope you...

This week, Nate speaks with Army veteran and author Matt Gallagher ( ) about being a veteran writer in the age of online, about his recent NYT op-ed discussing Trump’s trip to Iraq, about how he got his start as an Army blogger writing from Iraq,...

This week, we spoke with 82nd Airborne veteran Michael McGuinness (@beardedcynic473) about a story he knows particularly well: the saga of Clint Lorance, an Army officer convicted of murder in Afghanistan and sentenced to 18 years in prison. As you...

Recent stirrings in the defense establishment seem to indicate that Trump’s cadre of goons want to invade Venezuela, or at least destabilize the region in hopes that Colombia and Brazil will invade. To that end, he’s deployed a walrus and his...

This Week, Francis drills a hole in his head with the book Trigger Warning by William and J. A. Johnstone. Trigger Warning is the book that happens when you melt multiple boomer Facebook meme pages together and pour it into a mold of an old white man...

We rung in the new year and immediately launched into the Democratic presidential primary, in which all sorts of bad AI-generated takes on “affordable access” proliferate. In this week’s episode, Nate and Francis discuss whether or not you’re...