Recently, the President of the United States released a video as part of the It Gets Better series that spoke to the trials of bullying and the importance of reaching out for help. The problem is, young gay kids — the target of It Gets Better — are learning about their worthlessness from the actions [...]

MARJAH, Afghanistan — In the first two months of a seven-month tour, U.S. Marine Cpl. Chuck Martin has been in 16 firefights. He’s done laundry twice, mailed five letters and received two. He’s spent 378 hours on post and 256 hours on patrol. He’s crossed 140 miles (230 kilometers) of thorny bomb-laced farmland and waist-high [...]

I’m going to (mostly) resist the urge to take advantage of this column’s volume number in order to write a really gross column. Numerically, and inventory-wise, a “gross” is (of course) one dozen dozen. Twelve squared. But to dwell on this cheap pun would be unseemly, even though there’s plenty of “gross” material out there [...]

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department on Thursday declared that “don’t ask, don’t tell” is once again the law of the land but set up a new system that could make it tougher to get thrown of the military for being openly gay. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday ordered that all dismissals under the 1993 [...]

A new drama-documentary featuring a mock Afghan kidnapping of Prince Harry is set to debut on UK TV tonight despite infuriating British military officials, according to reports. London’s Channel 4 will air “The Taking of Prince Harry,” which features actor Sebastian Reid as the 26-year-old prince. In one scene, Reid depicts Harry being held by [...]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama opposes the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military, so why are Obama administration lawyers in court fighting to save it? The answer is one that perhaps only a lawyer could love: There is a long tradition that the Justice Department defends laws adopted by Congress [...]

On October 6, the Supreme Court took up a case regarding a right-wing fundamentalist pastor, Fred Phelps, whose anti-gay congregation has taken to protesting at military funerals, carrying signs that read “Fag Troops” or “Thank God for Dead Soldiers.” Phelps doesn’t seem to care whether or not the dead soldiers in question were actually gay. [...]

If your company’s diversity recruiting strategy fails to include military veterans, you are missing out on working with some of our country’s most outstanding men and women. Organizations that fail to recognize the extraordinary leadership qualities that veterans bring to the workplace pass up the opportunity to work with results-oriented employees that have a strong [...]

When asked the following question, most people guess the wrong answer. Question: What is worse: the collapse of the banking system or the collapse of phytoplankton? Actually, most people don’t know that this tiny plant life called phytoplankton is so small — as small as bacteria — that more than one trillion of them exist [...]

Lt. Dan Choi, the Iraq war veteran, Arab linguist, and West Point grad turned “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal activist, today got what he had said he wanted from day one: the opportunity to serve his country in the armed forces again. This afternoon, amid dozens of reporters, and thousands of passersby — most totally [...]