David Brooks, who always appeared to be a nice and reasonable gentleman, seems to have lost his marbles. In his most recent New York Times column he calls for young people (or perhaps all Americans) ...

In the United States, age segregation is prevalent in national service, just as it is in housing, higher education, and community programs, and it limits opportunities for transformational social ...

The shock move, unveiled by the Prime Minister in an article for The Mail on Sunday, means school-leavers would be obliged to spend a year in a full-time Armed Forces role or volunteering with ...

MCCAIN, OBAMA, AND NATIONAL SERVICE.... Seven years ago, right here in the Washington Monthly, John McCain wrote a terrific piece on national service programs. McCain conceded that he'd been skeptical ...

Americans agree on very little. That is why the results of a recent poll about mandatory national service were both surprising and encouraging. It turns out that more than two-thirds of Americans ...

Presidential campaigns always seem to revive the debate about national service. Candidates, pundits, and average citizens argue about its legitimacy and whether it ought to be voluntary or compulsory.

Policymakers should expand national service as part of a broader jobs strategy to help young workers weather the recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic. A teenager working with an AmeriCorps ...

Dressed in bald eagle costumes, advocates for national service rally in front of the White House. The protest was a response to a White House budget proposal to eliminate national service programs.

McChrystal is a former Army General, founder of the McChrystal Group, the founding chairperson of Service Year Alliance, and a co-chair of the Serve America Together campaign to make national service ...

Eighteen-year-olds would be forced to carry out a form of national service if the Tories win the General Election, Rishi Sunak has announced. The most recent form of compulsory national service in the ...

McChrystal is a former Army General, founder of the McChrystal Group, the founding chairperson of Service Year Alliance, and a co-chair of the Serve America Together campaign to make national service ...

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