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Jasper Craven

New York

Freelance Journalist at The New Republic

Freelance Journalist at VTDigger

Freelance Investigative Journalist at Freelance

Reporter mostly covering the military + veterans. Writing: @NYTimes, @Harpers, @theBafflerMag, @POLITICOMag, etc. ✪ [email protected] ✪

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Articles

  • Doug Collins’s Cancel Culture

    1 month ago | prospect.org | Suzanne Gordon |Steve Early |Jasper Craven |with Suzanne Gordon

    At the mid-January confirmation hearing for Doug Collins to be secretary of veterans affairs, many senators, including Republicans, directed his attention to the problematic results of past VA outsourcing to private-sector vendors.

  • VA Research Funding Slashed

    1 month ago | prospect.org | Suzanne Gordon |Steve Early |Jasper Craven |with Suzanne Gordon

    If you’re interested in the long history of scientific innovation and advances at the Department of Veterans Affairs, you may want to visit the website for the Office of Research and Development before Elon Musk and company delete it. Though few Americans are aware of it, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has traditionally served as one of the nation’s largest research powerhouses, along with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

  • A ‘Middle Finger’ to Vets

    2 months ago | prospect.org | Suzanne Gordon |Steve Early |Jasper Craven |with Suzanne Gordon

    In a scene that has become familiar in Washington these days, angry federal workers and concerned members of Congress gathered outside a government office to protest the latest depredations of the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) created by President Trump. On February 13, the venue of the day was the Vermont Avenue headquarters of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), an agency with the second-largest workforce and third-largest budget in the federal government.

  • Returning Home to Battle

    Jan 18, 2025 | revealnews.org | Zulema Cobb |Taki Telonidis |Jasper Craven |Brett Myers

    Posted inVeterans Twenty years after the Battle of Fallujah, Marines still wrestle with what they were asked to do in Iraq.

  • Adam Federman | Substack

    Dec 9, 2024 | substack.com | Adam Federman |Paul Kingsnorth |Jasper Craven |Adam Tooze

    Reporting Fellow, Type Investigations. Author of Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray.

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Jasper Craven
Jasper Craven @Jasper_Craven
8 Apr 25

RT @DRBoguslaw: Yesterday I drank myself across the city and pitched the biggest banks on reshoring skinny jeans. It didn't go well. https:…

Jasper Craven
Jasper Craven @Jasper_Craven
12 Mar 25

.@patriciakime is one of the best-sourced, most tireless reporters on the VA beat. She does this work because she cares. Doug clearly thinks his "gee-whiz" southern chaplain shtick hide his lies, but it doesn't. Make no mistake: he's dismantling the VA brick by brick.

VA Secretary Doug Collins
VA Secretary Doug Collins @SecVetAffairs

Reporters – Please help our Veterans by NOT spreading unconfirmed rumors, hearsay and innuendo about @DeptVetAffairs. Thank you! https://t.co/rZbMQn5VmY

Jasper Craven
Jasper Craven @Jasper_Craven
11 Mar 25

RT @EamonWhalen: I wrote the cover story for the new issue of @thenation. It's a profile of @RichardvReeves and how the "proudly boring" Br…