Maggie BenZvi is a contributing editor for Coffee or Die. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago, a master’s degree in human rights from Columbia University, and has worked for the ACLU as well as the International Rescue Commitee. She has also completed a summer journalism program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. In addition to her work at Coffee or Die, she’s a stay at home mom and contributor to the UNspoiled network of podcasts. Notably, she doesn’t drink coffee.
On Monday, the administrative team of the Drinkin’ Bros Facebook group received an unpleasant surprise — the group, with a membership of more than 110,000 people, including many service members, veterans, and first responders, had been removed in its ...
Multiple members of the training cadre at Fort Sill, Oklahoma’s Fires Center of Excellence have been implicated in the sexual assault of a female trainee. According to reporting by The Intercept, up to 22 Fort Sill service members were accused of ...
Three years ago, Black Rifle Coffee Company CEO Evan Hafer made a pledge to hire 10,000 veterans in the following six years. While there is still quite a ways to go, Hafer is pressing forward with a new hiring initiative, looking for highly motivated ...
Combat Flip Flops has created a limited-edition “Floperator” shoe, with proceeds going to benefit the charitable foundation One More Wave. One More Wave provides custom-built surf equipment, including surfboards and wetsuits, to injured veterans ...
It’s all over the internet: a viral video of a shoot house gone horribly wrong. In it, soldiers from the Army’s 10th Mountain Division train ineptly to clear rooms, while their superiors watch from above. The video spread widely enough to catch the ...
Maj. Gen. Stephen J. Maranian was suspended from his role as commandant at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 9. According to Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith, Maranian’s suspension was due to an allegation of inappropriate ...
According to The New York Times, high-ranking officials in the Department of Defense delayed the promotion of two female generals last fall. They feared then-President Donald Trump would scuttle the officers’ promotions due to their gender. Former ...
The Metropolitan Transit Authority has requested a substantial increase in the number of police officers assigned to the New York Police Department Transit Bureau in the wake of a rise in subway crime and a gruesome serial stabbing last ...
On Friday, the Minneapolis City Council voted for $6.4 million in funding to increase the size of the city police department. Police officials requested the extra funding eight days earlier, explaining the force had effectively lost more than 200 ...
Coffee or Die Magazine senior editor Nolan Peterson has been selected to become an ambassador for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a 41-year-old charity that provides educational funding to the children of fallen special operations ...
Three pilots from the Idaho Army National Guard lost their lives Tuesday night when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in mountainous terrain amid deteriorating weather conditions. The pilots — Chief Warrant Officer 4 Jesse Anderson, Chief ...
Eleven soldiers from Fort Bliss were hospitalized Thursday after ingesting antifreeze at the conclusion of a 10-day field exercise at the McGregor Range Complex. One warrant officer, two noncommissioned officers, and eight enlisted members ...
Despite being charged with releasing a report on racial discrimination and harassment in the military every four years, the Department of Defense (DOD) did not release its 2017 survey results until this past week, following a journalistic ...
A number of National Guard troops were removed from the United States Capitol complex and made to spend their rest breaks crowded into a parking garage on Thursday, two weeks into their deployment following the riot at the Capitol on January ...
A soldier at Fort Bliss, Texas, faces a court-martial after being charged last week with serial sexual assault in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Pvt. First Class Christian Alvarado was charged with three specifications of ...
During a rare New Year’s Day session, Congress overrode a presidential veto for the first time in President Donald Trump’s term in office. The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act will go into effect over Trump’s objection, passing the Senate by a ...
We may be down to the dregs in this, our third list of the best coffee moments in movies. But there’s still lots of laughs, lots of emotion, and lots of java to be found in the annals of filmmaking. We took suggestions from readers and managed to ...
President Donald Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 on Wednesday afternoon, leaving military funding for the coming year in limbo and requiring both chambers of Congress to return early from their holiday ...
One Fort Drum soldier is dead and another faces charges after police discovered a body in rural Sussex County, New Jersey. Cpl. Hayden Allen Harris, 20, was reported missing on Friday. Sussex County assistant prosecutor Gregory Mueller told The ...
The Democratic Party leadership in the US House of Representatives, along with a number of major veterans service organizations, are calling for the resignation of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie after the release of a report from the ...
On Tuesday, Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy announced the results of a months-long independent review of the command climate at Fort Hood. Fourteen members of Fort Hood’s command, from division to squad level, were suspended or relieved of ...
Marine veteran Brian Tally is a man on a mission. After a botched diagnosis at a VA hospital emergency room in 2016 left him battling the systemic aftereffects of a tissue-eating staph infection, Tally was unable to sue for malpractice due to a ...
As a member of the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment, Marty Skovlund Jr. completed five combat deployments. But the only time he ever got shot was in basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia. It was a hot July afternoon on the ...
Ethan Nagel grew up wanting to be a film director, but even more than that, he wanted to be a Marine like his grandfathers before him. “Growing up watching war movies, I always wanted to prove myself in combat,” Nagel said. “Could you even do it? ...
Jack Mandaville grew up “a fat kid with Tourette’s syndrome — I learned at a very young age to basically make fun of myself first so nothing anyone else said would matter.” Mandaville now puts his “slapsticky self-deprecating sense of humor” to use ...
When Clint Romesha left the Army in 2011, he intended to live a life completely disconnected from the military, to put his time in the service in a box up on a shelf. He moved to Minot, North Dakota, with his wife and three kids to work in the oil ...
When a group from Black Rifle Coffee Company’s leadership team took a trip to Guatemala this spring, former Marine and the company editor-in-chief Logan Stark kept the company’s pillars of content in mind through it all: entertain, inform, and ...
Eli Cuevas didn’t expect the short video he made about Final Fantasy XIV to change the direction of his life. “It was a game I was super stoked about, and then it was an immediate letdown, just a terrible video game,” Cuevas said. “It was bad ...
As a kid, Mat Best was always creating universes in his head or singing silly songs to make his friends laugh. He never dreamed that he would grow up to do it for a living. “You’re convinced through social constructs that you have to get that 9-to-5 ...
Evan Hafer, the CEO of Black Rifle Coffee Company, considers himself the “master editor” of the company. “It’s an extension of my body at this point,” Hafer told Coffee or Die Magazine. “I built it from my garage, so I’ve had basically every job ...
