Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 44)
Goodbye to all that: The forever wars go on without me
Danny Sjursen
Leaving the madness of Army life with a modest pension and all of my limbs intact feels like a genuine escape
South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors pull back from the abyss…barely
Dilip Hiro
India and Pakistan have created the most perilous place on Earth.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar team up with Rand Paul to praise Trump for Syria withdrawal
Shira Tarlo
The unexpected trio and a group of ten other lawmakers wrote Trump on Wednesday to offer their "bipartisan support"
Mayor Pete Buttigieg says his 2020 presidential campaign raised $7 million in the first quarter
Shira Tarlo
It is an impressive sum for a long-shot candidate who was relatively known only a few months ago
How to make yourself an exception to the rule of law
Rebecca Gordon
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo defy the International Criminal Court
Do any of the Democratic presidential candidates understand the power of peace?
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
America’s future depends on it
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg surges to third place in Iowa in new 2020 poll
Shira Tarlo
Buttigieg polled at 0 percent in the same poll in January — now, he has double-digit support
2020 Democrats face the “Blob” challenge
Jefferson Morley
How would the presidential contenders deal with the entrenched U.S. foreign policy elite?
Whose blood, whose treasure?
William J. Astore
America's senior generals find no exits from endless war
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg defended the Green New Deal
Matthew Rozsa
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay major party presidential prospect, backs a Green New Deal
CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump’s “absurdity”
Chauncey DeVega
Tom King was a CIA officer in the Middle East after 9/11. Now he's among the most acclaimed comic-book writers
School shooters and drones: Gun violence at home and abroad
Allegra Harpootlian
Linking gun violence at home to America’s wars abroad
Tucker Carlson is probably safe: He’s too valuable to the GOP for Fox to cut him loose
Amanda Marcotte
Carlson is good at leveraging bigotry to get viewers to vote against their own interests. Republicans need that
Tucker Carlson remains defiant as new tapes of the Fox News host using racist language resurface
Shira Tarlo
Carlson says a so-called leftist "mob" assails free speech and demands "total conformity" to political correctness
What will come after a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan?
Abdulkader Sinno
There is little hope for an outright U.S. victory over the Taliban at this point
“Facing the Dragon”: How Sedika Mojadidi made her “immersive and intimate” doc about Afghan women
Gary M. Kramer
Salon talks to the director of a new documentary about two women, a politician and a journalist, in Afghanistan
Chelsea Manning unsuccessfully fights subpoena to testify before grand jury probing Julian Assange
Alex Henderson
Assange has been seeking refuge in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, fearing that he will be extradited to the U.S.
An end to “endless war”: Sanders, Warren pledge to shut down post-9/11 conflicts
Jake Johnson
Two progressive 2020 candidates, along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, sign a pledge to end the 9/11 "forever war"
The Green New Deal: Just focus on what we do, not how we pay for it
Marshall Auerback
It’s what we do with the funds that matters.
Many Americans want a new national story: How about this one?
Jim Sleeper
Can we rebuild democracy, and America's civic culture, with a progressive new national myth? It's worth trying
Kamala Harris and the rest of us will regret portraying civil rights as a national security issue
Musa al-Gharbi
Attempts to translate civil rights into national security issues will probably turn out poorly
The complexities of cannabis: How I learned growing pot isn’t for slackers
Christy Stillwell
Dispensaries are everywhere and edibles are socially acceptable, and yet judgment still exists
Are U.S. tax dollars wasted on Afghan helicopters nobody will fly?
Victor Kotsev
It's another example illustrating the waste of taxpayer funds in Afghanistan
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