ISIS-K, explained by an expert

The United States issued a warning this week amid the crush and chaos at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in ...

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The helplessness of being an Afghanistan War vet

Inside a clinic in eastern Afghanistan, a nine-months-pregnant Afghan woman shivered on an old metal bed as an Afghan midwife ...

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NATO allies are preparing for a future without America’s “forever wars”

Afghanistan wasn’t just America’s 20-year war. It also belonged to US allies. “This has been above all a catastrophe for ...

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How the US created a disaster in Afghanistan

On August 15, 2021, the Taliban took over Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. The Afghan president fled the country. Almost all of ...

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You can buy stuff online, but getting it is another story

The global supply chain is in hot water. The pandemic has made it notoriously difficult for shoppers to buy certain ...

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The war on terror and the long death of liberal interventionism

By removing all troops from Afghanistan shortly before the 9/11 attacks’ 20th anniversary, President Joe Biden sent a none-too-subtle message: ...

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How your favorite jeans might be fueling a human rights crisis

In December 2018, I visited a large dyeing facility inside the Shaoxing Industrial Zone, south of the coastal city of ...

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Brazil escaped a January 6-style insurrection — for now

September 7 was Brazil’s Independence Day, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro used the occasion to continue his assault on the ...

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“Neoliberalism has really ruptured”: Adam Tooze on the legacy of 2020

If you’re reading this article, you can remember what it was like to be alive in 2020 — all too ...

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The affordable housing shortage is hurting Afghan refugees

Roughly a quarter of the more than 100,000 Afghans evacuated from Kabul in August have already arrived at American military ...

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