Joe Biden’s short walk in the Hindu Kush
To say that what just happened in Afghanistan caught the Biden administration by surprise would be the understatement of the year
World
Monday
The American epoch of failure
A lost war does less damage to a country like the United States than a war that cannot be won
Sunday
‘Bit of a pickle’ — meet the British student stuck on vacation in Kabul
Routledge set off for Afghanistan with the optimism of Tintin but the geopolitical awareness of Captain Haddock
Wrong then, wrong now — Joe Biden’s maddeningly inconsistent foreign policy
Joe Biden’s public pronouncements on Afghanistan neatly signal the folly of American leadership in the last two decades
Autopsy of a failed war
Our longest war ends in another abject failure
What went wrong in Afghanistan
Corruption was entrenched in Afghanistan at the start of the conflict 20 years ago
Tuesday
Will Prince Andrew drag Prince Harry down?
Sleaze and scandal are no good for Prince Harry’s new brand
Tuesday
Viktor Orbán is winning his culture war
It’s time for intellectually depleted Anglo-American conservatives to take a fresh look at Hungary
Friday
Why we need bullfighting
The art of the corrida teaches respect for mortality
Thursday
A DC evening with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
The Belarusian opposition leader is Washington’s ‘It Girl’
Monday
How the US military got rich from Afghanistan
Trillions of dollars have flowed through the Pentagon’s war budgets in the last two decades
Thursday
Glenn Greenwald: America First conservatives shouldn’t support unrest in Cuba
‘The US government, when it intervenes, brings instability, not stability’
Monday
We must help the Afghan interpreters
Our obligations in these cases are significant: a debt of honor and also a matter of national security
Thursday
What does Vladimir Putin have on Joe Biden?
Biden is refusing to act as Russian attacks become more ambitious and more aggressive
Why is Trump banned from Twitter when the Taliban isn’t?
The official spokesman tweeted out a video of an Afghan security forces vehicle being blown up
Wednesday
Viktor Orbán, literal authoritarian
With Orbán, it’s fascist. With Biden, it’s empowering
Tuesday
Can the US redeem itself in Afghanistan?
The US engaged in ‘nation-building’ for the wrong reasons — and has seen bad results
Thursday
Shelter and the world of white homeless privilege
Just because you live on the streets doesn’t mean you aren’t a beneficiary of structural racism
Has Xi Jinping overplayed his hand?
The Chinese Communist party at 100
Tuesday
Is communism authoritarian capitalism?
You certainly can abolish political freedom without abolishing market freedom — China proved it
