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.
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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.
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The deadly Sunday explosion is a reminder of the hundreds of civilians U.S. strikes have killed in Afghanistan.
The hubristic idea that America could successfully nation-build in Afghanistan was a bipartisan delusion for nearly two decades.
The Pentagon says 12 Americans were killed and 15 more wounded in a pair of suicide attacks near the Kabul airport. At least 60 Afghans died as well.
Nativists like J.D. Vance warn that we need to be "properly vetting" the Afghans coming to the U.S., neglecting to mention just how safe these people are.
The basics of supply and demand still applied.
Breaking encryption technologies always makes us less safe, no matter what the justification.
Both moral and practical considerations support admitting refugees fleeing the brutal tyranny of the Taliban.
After a nearly 20-year occupation, this was one inevitable outcome.
The foreign policy author and podcast host discusses Joe Biden's withdrawal and how to fix U.S. foreign policy.
The same institution that's unable to run the Postal Service or Amtrak orchestrated our invasion and withdrawal of Afghanistan.
The Enough Already: Time To End the War on Terror author on fixing foreign policy in the Joe Biden era.
A U.S. agency spent 13 years documenting our government's failure to stabilize or rebuild the country.
The final price tag could eventually exceed $6 trillion, and American taxpayers will be paying the tab when the 50th anniversary of 9/11 arrives.
Why did it take presidents so long to realize this?
You can both support withdrawal and recognize its failed execution.
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What Afghan civilians need now is resettlement, not remilitarization.
"I will not repeat the mistakes we've made in the past," Biden said Monday.
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Federal espionage laws are used once again to punish a whistleblower.
Saying that American troops are in Iraq for "training and advising" and not "combat" might sound nice, but it doesn’t get them out of harm’s way.
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