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Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, Private Aid Fills Void Left by Bureaucratic Failure

Small, private groups are working to feed the hungry and evacuate the endangered.

Beth Bailey | 3.31.2022 12:00 PM

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Immigration

Around 28,000 Afghans Are Still Awaiting Approval To Come to the U.S. on Urgent Humanitarian Grounds

Only about 100 Afghans who have applied for temporary admission to the U.S. have been approved.

Fiona Harrigan | 11.29.2021 4:55 PM

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Military

Congress Spends More on Defense Than the Next 10 Countries Combined

We can't afford to keep funding defense contractors' cost overruns.

John Stossel | 11.3.2021 12:30 AM

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9/11

Biden Won't End the Warfare-Surveillance State

National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.

Nick Gillespie | 9.9.2021 1:41 PM

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Afghanistan

America's Longest War Is Over

Plus: Backpage on trial, Texas abortion providers ask SCOTUS to stop ban, vegan "butter" and "cheese" are safe, and more… 

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.31.2021 9:30 AM

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Afghanistan

Kabul Attack Is a Vivid Reminder of Why America Should Leave Afghanistan ASAP

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.

Eric Boehm | 8.26.2021 4:40 PM

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Technology

The Taliban Is No Excuse To Crack Down On Secure Tech

Breaking encryption technologies always makes us less safe, no matter what the justification.

Andrea O'Sullivan | 8.24.2021 8:30 AM

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Refugees

The Case for Accepting Afghan Refugees

Both moral and practical considerations support admitting refugees fleeing the brutal tyranny of the Taliban.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.20.2021 6:55 PM

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Afghanistan

The Afghanistan Lessons America Refused To Learn

A U.S. agency spent 13 years documenting our government's failure to stabilize or rebuild the country.

Scott Shackford | 8.18.2021 1:05 PM

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Reason Roundup

Facebook's Taliban Policy Could Delete a Lot More Than Just Pro-Taliban Content

Plus: Biden won't budge on Afghanistan, the link between cruise ship vaccine passports and free speech, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.17.2021 9:35 AM

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan: A 'Sudden Fall' Two Decades in the Making

Plus: A history of U.S. sex work prohibition and its harms, against the Open App Markets Act, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.16.2021 10:00 AM

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Reason Roundup

Biden: It's Time for Afghanistan Forces 'To Fight for Themselves'

Plus: YouTube and radicalization, the infrastructure sham, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.11.2021 9:30 AM

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Afghanistan

Withdrawing From Afghanistan Is Still the Right Thing To Do

Sen. Lindsey Graham says it would be Biden's "biggest mistake yet," but the U.S. troop departure is long overdue.

Fiona Harrigan | 7.14.2021 12:35 PM

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Afghanistan

Let the Afghan People Come

Joe Biden doesn’t have to feel bad about bringing the troops home if he lets the persecuted come here.

John Glaser and Alex Nowrasteh | 4.7.2021 10:15 AM

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Afghanistan

Don't Let Biden Sink Troops Back Into the Afghanistan Quagmire

We have an agreement to pull out by May. We should honor it regardless of the state of the country.

Scott Shackford | 2.2.2021 1:50 PM

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Afghanistan

A Partial Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal Prompts Predictable Political Backlash

For some, Trump’s troop drawdowns are too fast and too much. In reality, they’re too little and way too late.

Scott Shackford | 11.18.2020 2:30 PM

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Foreign Policy

The Afghanistan Deal Is Already Falling Apart

We should reduce the number of troops anyway.

Willis L. Krumholz | 3.3.2020 12:10 PM

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Afghanistan

Trump Administration Says It's Ready to Sign Peace Deal With the Taliban by the End of the Month

Left unspecified: how many U.S. troops would be coming home, and when

Christian Britschgi | 2.21.2020 2:25 PM

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Supreme Court Won't Reconsider Guantanamo Bay's Indefinite Detentions

A never-ending war may mean a life sentence for being classified as an enemy combatant.

Scott Shackford | 6.10.2019 1:45 PM

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Must Reads

Time to Talk to the Taliban

The Trump administration deserves credit for its willingness to come to the table.

Bonnie Kristian | 7.24.2018 11:50 AM

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HomePage

Afghanistan Reconstruction: Huge Cost, Meager Benefits

A hearing chaired by Sen. Rand Paul exposes wasteful and counterproductive spending of U.S. money.

Brian Doherty | 5.10.2018 6:10 PM

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HomePage

In Afghanistan, a 15-Year Failure

Endemic corruption has prevented any sort of victory.

Steve Chapman | 10.6.2016 12:01 AM

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Hit & Run

Taliban Names Hard-Liners as New Leaders—Obama Hoped Killing of Previous Leader Could Bring Taliban to Peace Talks

Year fifteen of the U.S. in Afghanistan

Ed Krayewski | 5.25.2016 5:29 PM

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Politics

Is the U.S. Abandoning Afghan Interpreters to Certain Death?

Joshua Swain | 6.6.2015 3:00 PM

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Taliban Attacks Two Churches in Pakistan; Christian Mob Riots, Kills Two Suspected Terrorists

At least 15 people were killed in the suicide bombings, leading to Christian protests around Pakistan.

Ed Krayewski | 3.15.2015 1:26 PM

Politics

Pakistan is Still Not Ready to Root Out Terrorism

Peshawar might not be the last massacre on its soil

Shikha Dalmia | 12.23.2014 11:00 AM

Politics

Shikha Dalmia on Pakistan's Out-of-Control Islamist Terrorists

Reason Staff | 12.23.2014 11:00 AM

Hit & Run

Pakistani Student Massacre: 'Is that his son in a box?,' asks American boy.

Ronald Bailey | 12.18.2014 11:35 AM

Culture

Sacrificing Goats to the Olympian Committee

Jesse Walker | 11.18.2009 10:49 AM

World

Theocratic Autonomous Zone

Jesse Walker | 10.19.2009 8:59 AM

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