by Colin P. Clarke One year after the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, the country is an even more dangerous place. The Taliban now serves as the de facto government, doling out punishments and beatings to Afghans who run afoul of the group’s strict Islamic mores. Yet, in ...
by Bobby Ghosh The U.S. drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahri in Kabul on Sunday caught the Taliban leadership both red-handed and flat-footed. Their promises to prevent the country from once again becoming a terrorist haven have been exposed as lies: The al-Qaida leader was living ...
by Jay Ambrose Someone forgot to tie him to his Oval Office chair, and so it was that President Joe Biden took off for Europe to discuss the Ukraine horror with NATO and European leaders, visit Poland and fumble enough rhetorically to conceivably make the situation worse. He said ...
Every once in a while a movie comes along that is so unique yet relatable, so heartbreaking yet joyful, loathsome yet generous, that you are compelled to make certain that everyone you have ever met watches it. For me, director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s documentary “Flee” is one of those ...
by Ruth Pollard Out of all the actions the Biden administration could have taken on Afghanistan, commandeering the nation’s foreign currency reserves is, to put it mildly, unhelpful. In an executive order signed Friday, President Joe Biden began the process of releasing the $7 ...
by Martin Schram Outside, millions of desperate people have been standing for hours in lines stretching around the corners of America’s city streets and suburban strip malls. Inside, others have been searching the internet — and getting kicked off by overloaded websites and ...