New SIGAR findings shine a light on America’s dysfunctional efforts to train the Afghan National Police, which “actually contributed to increasing criminality” in Afghanistan.
Ideas Beyond Borders is bringing ideas about pluralism, civil liberties, and critical thinking to hotbeds of Islamic extremism.
Critics allege, with some justice, that the Biden Administration is treating the former more favorably than the latter. If so, the right solution is to increase openness to Afghans and others fleeing war and repression, not bar more Ukrainians.
The co-founders of Ideas Beyond Borders talk about bringing Steven Pinker and John Stuart Mill to an audience dying for them.
Critics are right to point out that some Western nations are treating Ukrainian refugees better than those fleeing similar horrific situations elsewhere. But the right way to address the problem is to increase openness to other refugees, not exclude Ukrainians.
America has wrongly abandoned thousands of Afghan allies who had been promised Special Immigrant Visas. Now, private citizens, veterans, and government personnel are trying to get them out.
Small, private groups are working to feed the hungry and evacuate the endangered.
Inside the volunteer effort to save the stranded men and women who worked with the U.S. military
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
Those already in the U.S. as of March 15 may also work legally for the next 18 months.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
The drop in public trust has finally come for the Pentagon too.
Some good changes have flown under the radar. But there have been few wins—political or practical.
Surveillance clearly shows children nearby as strike was called on man mistaken for a terrorist.
Biden rightly stuck to his guns when he defended the long-overdue U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, but he fails to apply the same logic elsewhere.
It's a welcome move after refugee resettlement hit a record low in fiscal year 2021.
Our drones still patrol the skies, and our tax dollars will be paying off the costs of failed nation-building for decades.
Canadian officials recognize that immigrants are key to the post-COVID economic recovery. The U.S. should take note.
No wonder the federal budget is so out of whack.
But those numbers don’t include Afghanistan, and that’s a problem.
Only about 100 Afghans who have applied for temporary admission to the U.S. have been approved.
According to the Pentagon, no crimes were committed.
We can't afford to keep funding defense contractors' cost overruns.
With tens of thousands of Afghans awaiting assistance, the initiative will capitalize on local knowledge and turn resettlement into a bottom-up process.
A leading proponent of the invasion of Iraq vs. the editorial director of Antiwar.com.
Rafia Zakaria's controversial Against White Feminism challenges the status of icons like Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Eve Ensler.
The bloody, tumultuous withdrawal from Afghanistan was a predictable disaster. It was also an incredible, surprising anti-war victory.
That would have been a huge mistake.
Multiple military authorizations are still intact and we've still got troops in Iraq and elsewhere. And that's not even counting the drone strikes.
Seven children were among the 10 killed.
The plan would make a liar out of Biden on a level reminiscent of George H.W. Bush's betrayal of his "read my lips" tax pledge.
An independent investigation hasn't turned up terrorist ties or explosives.
The U.S. did not leave behind a safe and stable situation, but it was never capable of creating one.
There will likely never be a full accounting of the war's cost, but as much as $600 billion might have simply vanished due to waste, fraud, and incompetence.
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.
The Reign of Terror author on fighting surveillance and interventionism done in the name of stopping jihad.
Historian Stephen Wertheim says two decades of failed wars have finally made America more likely to embrace military restraint.
Plus, why is no one talking about the Medicare Trustees' entitlement report?
Shameful scenes like those in Kabul don’t have to happen if we avoid military interventions.
In an interview, the Michigan Republican explains what he learned in Kabul, why Tucker Carlson is wrong about Afghan refugees, and how the 20-year occupation was an "abject failure."
Slow processing of SIV applications has led to an average wait time of three years and a backlog of roughly 18,000 primary applicants (and 52,000 family members).
Both liberals and conservatives could take some lessons from the U.S. State Department's list of cities that it recommends Afghan refugees relocate to.
"You don’t get to lose a war and expect the result to look like you won it," says the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
In a speech aimed at proponents of perpetual war, the president refused to apologize for exiting Afghanistan.
But numerous politicians and war hawks were duped by seeing what they wanted to see.
Plus: Backpage on trial, Texas abortion providers ask SCOTUS to stop ban, vegan "butter" and "cheese" are safe, and more…
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