--- title: Brigid Schulte | TIME description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/author/brigid-schulte/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/brigid-schulte/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Brigid Schulte ## Brigid Schulte ## Brigid Schulte * ![U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announces new regulations that the military hopes will increase retention of troops that want to have families while preserving readiness during a news conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 28, 2016](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3b4ce5263e133cc/69887c5c3c163970e245be6a/ash-carter.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Feb 5, 2016 ### [The Pentagon’s New Family Policies Are an Important Step](https://time.com/4209717/pentagons-family-policy/) But more needs to be done [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) * ![Overwhelmed](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1bf1f65f2ea904f2/698688d855a859a0a0a801b9/time-overwhelmed.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Apr 4, 2014 ### [I'll Finish the Dishes When I'm Dead](https://time.com/48975/overwhelmed-time-management-ill-finish-the-dishes-when-im-dead/) Caught up in what I've come to call the Overwhelm, the thought kept nagging me: Was I not just bad a... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/brigid-schulte/","name":"Brigid Schulte"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/brigid-schulte/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/brigid-schulte/"},"name":"Brigid Schulte","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/brigid-schulte/","sameAs":["https://x.com/BrigidSchulte"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```