by Robert C. Koehler EDITOR'S NOTE: Leonard Pitts is on vacation this week. His next column will appear on Jan. 6. War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the guys at Talon Anvil, a secret U.S. “strike cell” recently exposed by the New York Times as a unit with a ...
After sidling by the hills and poking through the fog, there it is. On the days when the sky is a lithograph blue, Berry Birurakis really doesn’t have to look for it all. Then, it just proclaims: The smoothest ribbon of transit there ever was, etched in a line so straight and precise, ...
Veterans Day is always bittersweet — a day dedicated to living service members but that always brings to mind the brave men and women we have lost — but it’s particularly bittersweet this year. This year is special, and a little odd, because America finally ended its 20-year war in ...
by Bobby Ghosh Two and a half months since the fall of Kabul, the international community has yet to figure out how to stop Afghanistan’s new masters from imposing harsh restrictions on women’s freedoms. Yet one shift in the way negotiators handle their dealings with the Taliban ...
Congressional testimony this week by the top Pentagon officials charged with the Afghanistan pullout made clear that President Joe Biden opted against their recommendation against completely withdrawing U.S. troops. Instead, Biden insisted on a hasty pullout, leading to disastrous results. ...
When judging the nation’s character, the media tend to gravitate toward its loudest voices, its most extreme measures, its deepest grudges. The result is a loss of all subtlety and nuance. In the days and weeks following Aug. 26, when our nation lost 13 service members in a deadly terror ...