Leaving Afghanistan
What happens to the country and its people after the forever war ends?
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The U.S. withdrawal should continue. But a new military engagement should begin.
The State Department weighs evacuating the U.S. embassy in Kabul as more cities fall.
Ten provincial capitals have fallen in a week, and Kabul is teetering.
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The Democratic Party cares more about fighting populists than ending inequality.
Despair elides the progress made over the last two decades.
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If he succeeds, the president will cast 40 years of economic doctrine on history’s ash heap. But that’s a big if.
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Confronting the violence of U.S. policing requires an international perspective.
Britain’s decision to compensate slaveholders was unjust, unpalatable—and effective.
The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development was seeking greater access for aid workers in Tigray.
A rerun of the 2013 “taper tantrum” could spell disaster for emerging economies.
The lawsuit over drug cartel violence could be part of a bigger change on guns.
Pyongyang faces a looming catastrophe but is in no hurry to vaccinate its people.
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The biology of the delta variant has made mass revaccination an urgent necessity.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya didn’t set out to challenge a brutal dictatorship.
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The United States and Europe are on the brink of decisions that could save the planet—or tear apart the West.
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In some Afghan towns, women are fleeing ahead of insurgent takeovers.