Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 107)
7 insane problems outlined in the new Afghan reconstruction report
Jean MacKenzie
Corruption permeates almost ever facet of the Afghan government and may pose a bigger threat than the Taliban
Stephen Colbert needs a drink: “Things might actually be as bad as we make them sound on cable news”
Sarah Gray
Colbert is hitting the hard stuff to report on the, well, hard stuff
How to survive in post-constitutional America
Peter Van Buren
What happens when the executive branch can play judge, jury and executioner in the war on terror?
“The Kill Team”: When U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan became trophy hunters
Andrew O'Hehir
A wrenching documentary explores the Army's gruesome murders of Afghan civilians, and one soldier who spoke out
VIP boxes and seven-figure advances: How fiction gets the publishing industry laughably wrong
Laura Miller
The book business is not an easy setting to dramatize. But that sure hasn't stopped thriller writers from trying
The doomsday doctrine: How George W. Bush sent the world down the path of destruction
Jonathan Schell
After 9/11, people rightly said the world had changed forever. Now the future of the planet depends on fixing it
Dinesh D’Souza’s laughable embarrassment: A review of “America: Imagine the World Without Her”
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
From atrociously bad argumentation to humiliating propaganda, here's just how crazy Dinesh D'Souza's new movie is
How to survive an American century: From JFK to the apocalypse
Tom Engelhardt
Seventy years of lessons on the contradictions and dangers of global superpower-dom
Battleground voters’ rage: In which any endorsement will only backfire
Jim Newell
Battleground voters are skeptical of Congress and most politicians. And no endorsement's going to change that
“Tomlinson Hill”: A white man from Texas unearths his family’s shockingly racist past
Laura Miller
The story of two families, one black, one white -- with a painful shared history
Stop calling soldiers “heroes”: It stops us from seeing them as human — and dismisses their experience
Cara Hoffman
"Hero" sounds like praise, but it's not: It glosses over the human cost of war, and keeps us from helping our vets
Israel: America’s Frankenstein monster
Andrew O'Hehir
Israel's harshest critics and most ardent defenders agree on one thing: The battle is really about America
Bowe Bergdahl thanks Obama for “saving his life”
Elias Isquith
The former POW is grateful that the president ignored conservatives who demanded he be abandoned and left to die
The horrific consequences of American adventurism: “Life in Iraq has become impossible”
Dahr Jamail
The disaster of U.S. occupation has led to a massive, violent breakdown of Iraqi society
A “crisis” of our own making: America’s disgraceful response to child refugees
Joshua Holland
Wingnuts are hurling epithets at fleeing children, and media coverage of their plight is no less repugnant
My lunch with the Cheneys: Noshing over ex-VPs latest garbage with standing-room only crowd
Jim Newell
Sadly, Mary wasn't there. But who needs the real-deal 4th Cheney when you have an ample substitute in Mike Allen?
The new American exceptionalism: An imperial state unable to impose its will
Tom Engelhardt
While the corporate sector flourishes, the U.S. government is incapable of dictating policy at home or abroad
See how they run: The 2016 presidential checklist
Calvin Woodward
The animatronic presidency: How presidential museums become propaganda palaces, whitewashing Bush’s disasters and Clinton’s failings
Thomas Frank
At presidential museums, even the cynical melt before multimillion-dollar efforts to portray scoundrels as leaders
The American Century is over: How our country went down in a blaze of shame
Michael Lind
We face a triple crisis in foreign policy, economics and democracy. Here's how it all went to hell
From Ukraine to Iraq: Welcome to the new age of energy wars
Michael Klare
Across the planet, ethnic, religious and national antagonisms are coming to a boil over access to fossil fuels
Tom Perrotta: “My protagonist was too nice a guy for a dark tentpole drama on Sunday nights”
Scott Timberg
The novelist on creating the world of "The Leftovers" and the art of transferring a story from page to screen
Stop listening to neoconservative dunces! “They’ve been wrong about almost every important strategic choice”
Paul Rosenberg
Neocons have flawed worldview and awful track record, says Harvard professor who's seen through nonsense for years
What America can learn from “Lawrence of Arabia” about Iraq
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
The British officer immortalized by Peter O'Toole railed against the dangers of foreign engagement in the region
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