Sometimes we bring you news of stories as they're breaking, and other times, pieces of journalism take time. NPR veterans correspondent Quil Lawrence has spent the past decade following the story of ...

This story originally published on Nov. 16, 2025. The first I saw of Dave Carlson was his back, in a prison jumpsuit on Sept. 3, 2015. Carlson had been calling me from the cellblock payphone for a few ...

This Veterans Day, NPR's Leila Fadel sits down for a conversation with reporter Quil Lawrence and Iraq War veteran Dave Carlson to discuss what it means to live through war. Today on this Veterans Day ...

NPR Veterans Correspondent Quil Lawrence interviewed Dave Carlson over 10 years, as the Iraq war vet went from war to incarceration to redemption... This story originally published on Nov. 16, 2025.

Today on this Veterans Day, my colleague Quil Lawrence has a new podcast out about an Iraq war veteran. It's a podcast years in the making. A decade ago, Quil first met Dave Carlson over a pay phone ...