When aides to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dropped a priceless World War II globe, they shattered more than wood and plaster; they wrecked our faith in institutional stewardship.
In the geography of power, there is a distance between the rhetoric of the Oval Office and the reality of the loading dock. Currently, that distance is a canyon.
The dismissal of Erik Slavin, editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, alongside publisher Max Lederer and reporter Lara Korte, is not a mere personnel dispute; it is the visible…