The Vietnam draft conscripted hundreds of thousands of young Americans into an integrated military. I combine near-random draft lottery variation with administrative voter data to study the long-run ...
American forces left Vietnam 50 years ago, but the war never left America. Traces of it — some faint, some strong — still haunt our foreign policy and national security strategy. It often echoes in ...
On the 40th anniversary of the end of the war, a look back at a groundbreaking photo essay that revealed the realities of the conflict ...
This guest essay reflects the views of Jim Smith, who worked for Newsday from 1966 to 2014. I locked myself in the bathroom of my parents' Albertson Cape Cod home and slumped to the floor. Blood ...