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October 24, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Hegseth Ramps Up Navy Fleet in Latin America After “Drug Boat” Strike
It sure looks like the Trump administration is preparing to go to war—without declaring it.
October 24, 2025
Edith Olmsted
How Trump Is Sneakily Using Navy for His Fascist Immigration Crackdown
Donald Trump has an insidious plan to speed up construction of detention centers.
October 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Tells the Navy to View Half the Country as the Enemy
Donald Trump is determined to turn the military against the American people.
August 29, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump’s Military Parade Was So Bad That Now He Wants a Redo
Donald Trump wants to try again—this time, with another branch of the military.
August 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Pulls In Navy for His Next Takeover of Blue City
The Department of Homeland Security reached out to a naval base near Chicago for help with ICE operations.
June 3, 2025
Tori Otten
Hegseth Marks Pride With Plan to Rename Ship Named for Harvey Milk
The names of USNS Harvey Milk and other ships honoring prominent civil rights leaders are on the chopping block.
April 28, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
U.S. Navy Loses $60 Million Jet as Pressure Increases on Hegseth
Care to comment, Defense Secretary Hegseth?
February 10, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Escalates MAGA’s Anti-“Woke” Purge of Military
Donald Trump has called for the dismissal of all military academy boards. And he’s pointing to wokeness as justification.
November 27, 2024
Robert McCoy
Trump’s Fans Suddenly Realize How He Picks Nominees—and They’re Pissed
Donald Trump has nominated the head of a private investment firm to lead the Navy.
May 31, 2023
MagazineTimothy Noah
Why on Earth Are We Still Building Aircraft Carriers?
They’re antiquated and susceptible to attack. But they employ a lot of people in a lot of congressional districts.
April 13, 2020
Jason Dempsey
How Donald Trump Ruined the Navy
The bungled response to a coronavirus outbreak on an aircraft carrier reveals a deeper crisis among the president's obsequious military appointees.
June 24, 2019
Trita Parsi
Could Obama’s Iran Playbook Save Trump From War?
Lessons from a 2016 naval crisis that could have sunk the nuclear deal and opened a conflict, but didn’t.
September 28, 2017
MagazineMichelle Dean
Sunken Pleasures
Jennifer Egan disconnects from the fractured nature of modern life.
January 12, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Iran has detained two U.S. Navy ships but will release 10 crew members “promptly.” (Updated)
September 25, 2015
Natalie Lampert
My Mother Was a Colonel
In October, the U.S. military has a chance to stop excluding women from the front lines
January 24, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
"A Change Long Overdue": Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on the First Year of Women in Combat
June 24, 2013
Paul Lukas
ALL-CAPS TYPOGRAPHY IS DOOMED
The Navy has formally abandoned all-caps communiques. You probably have, too.
April 9, 2013
Steven Metz, Douglas C. Lovelace Jr.
Don't Give Up on Ground Troops
With budget cuts looming, the Pentagon should focus on adaptability—not just technolgy
January 11, 2013
Alec MacGillis
The Washington Post's Confused Anti-Hagel Crusade
November 15, 2012
William Galston
The Military’s Laws on Adultery Make No Sense

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