We Have a Choice: Weapons and War, or Food and Health Care?
June 11, 2025 | President Trump’s “big brutal bill” slashes SNAP and Medicaid to enrich private prison and military contractor CEOs.
Articles by Lindsay Koshgarian
Our Nearly $1 Trillion Military Budget Won’t Make Us Safer
June 27, 2024 | Congress is spending on the military like it’s World War III. Diverting that money to jobs, health care, and the climate would make us far safer.
Last Year, You Spent More Than a Month’s Rent on Pentagon Contractors
April 10, 2024 | A dollar by dollar look at how our taxes enrich military contractors — at the expense of things that actually make us secure.
Immigration Is Good. Our Immigration Policy Should Reflect That.
February 27, 2024 | Congress should scrap its doomed “border deal” and instead embrace the vitality that immigration brings.
The Pentagon Just Can’t Pass an Audit
November 29, 2023 | Conservative lawmakers calling for cuts should start with the agency that can’t account for $1.9 trillion — not the programs Americans rely on.
Climate Is the Fight of Our Lifetime. Our Federal Budget Should Reflect That.
September 20, 2023 | More than half of discretionary spending goes to the military. Only a tiny fraction addresses the most urgent threat to our security.
Dwight Was Right: Congress Must Say No to Military Contractors
July 12, 2023 | The world Eisenhower warned about has materialized. We need more members of Congress to stand up to the arms industry and fight for social investments instead.
Congress Has No Business Shoveling Another $858 Billion Into the Military Industrial Complex
December 7, 2022 | The Pentagon just failed its fifth audit in as many years. After 20 years of war, there are better ways to spend tax dollars than on an agency that can't even account for half of its assets.
About That $900 You Gave Pentagon Contractors
April 13, 2022 | This tax season, I’d rather fund green jobs and disease control than jets that spontaneously combust. Wouldn’t you?
9/11 at 20: Two Decades of Missed Opportunities
September 10, 2021 | For just a fraction of what we’ve spent on militarization these last 20 years, we could start to make life much better.