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.
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 ...
s 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 range, and as he waited ...
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 ...
Plenty of people who work for Black Rifle Coffee Company have been to some of the most war-torn places on earth, but social media manager Luke Ryan actually grew up there. Born in Michigan, Ryan is the son of missionary medical aid workers who moved ...
Following a series of high-profile criminal incidents at Fort Hood, Texas, Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt was removed from his command of the base on Tuesday. Efflandt was in line to take over command of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, also in ...
The body of a missing Fort Hood soldier was discovered on Tuesday, the third dead soldier recovered near the Army base in the last three months. Sgt. Elder Fernandes, 23, was a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear specialist in the ...
oo many drinks and a Wyoming snowstorm will make anyone reconsider driving home from the strip club. It was just after midnight when John Knospler Jr. was jolted awake in the driver's seat by what sounded like someone trying to get into his car. The ...
Army officials confirmed Monday that the human remains found last week near the Leon River in Texas were those of missing Specialist Vanessa Guillén. The identification was made through DNA analysis. Guillén, a small arms repairer, was last seen ...
Editor’s Note: In the interest of accurately reporting the events of Spc. Guillen’s murder, we have included details in this article that may be upsetting to some readers. While the command at Fort Hood remains steadfast in their refusal to ...
The search for missing soldier Vanessa Guillén appears to have come to a tragic end on Tuesday, when human remains were found in a shallow grave near the Leon River 25 miles from Killeen, Texas. Private First Class Guillén, who was 20 years old, ...
Major Richard Star loved to run. A U.S. Army reservist for 28 years and 10 months, Star served almost 15 of those years of active duty, starting with Operation Desert Storm. “I just enjoyed running,” Star said. “And you breathe in deeply, ...
When Private First Class Vanessa Guillén disappeared on April 22, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood, Texas, sprang into action. Five-hundred soldiers a day were searching around the base, and the 1st Cavalry Regiment provided over 100 hours of ...
A newly minted West Point graduate, Alix Idrache was not expecting May 24, 2016, to be a particularly exceptional day. “I was having a regular day. I just graduated, I’m really happy,” he said. But then he logged on to his Facebook account — “I had ...
If you’ve watched, read, or listened to anything made by Black Rifle Coffee Company, you can rest assured Logan Stark has had a hand in its creation. One of the company’s OGs, Stark is the Editor in Chief of BRCC and oversees all content from ...
rin Scanlon never expected to become the face behind a proposed Congressional bill. All she did was attend a party in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Sept. 9, 2016. “There was this nonprofit that had this event,” said Scanlon. “That’s when I met ...
The world of podcasts is a wide and varied one. Offerings have nearly doubled over the last two years — and with more than 900,000 podcasts to choose from, there's sure to be one to match the tastes and interests of the more than 50 percent of ...
