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Afghanistan
June 3, 2014
Brian Beutler
Conservative Critics of the Bergdahl-Taliban Swap Have Some Explaining to Do
May 29, 2014
John B. Judis
Obama's New Guidelines for War Don't Provide Much Guidance on Iran and Syria
April 16, 2014
Maia Booker
Balloons and Bodybuilders: A Fresh Look at Modern Afghanistan
March 27, 2014
Jeffrey E. Stern
This Former Johns Hopkins Professor Could Be Afghanistan’s Next President
And his running mate is a brutal warlord
March 2, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Lorrie Moore Has a Politics Problem
What happens when fiction abuses the war on terror
February 26, 2014
Max Boot
Why Is Robert Gates Angry?
The former Defense Secretary: Indignant, effective, and often wrong.
February 4, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Talks With the Taliban: First Failure, Then Humiliation
January 31, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Interview: What Kind of Game is Hamid Karzai Playing?
January 7, 2014
Alice Robb
Study: Afghans Are More Apt to Forgive Taliban Violence than U.S. Violence. Why?
November 25, 2013
Kathryn Olson
This Map Predicts Where Violence Will Erupt in Afghanistan
November 24, 2013
Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini
Photos: The Afghan Army Prepares to Fight on Its Own
October 29, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
An Absolutely Frightening Story in 'The New York Times'
September 27, 2013
Michael Thomsen
Video Games Are Making Us Too Comfortable With the Modern Surveillance State
July 11, 2013
Jeff Guo
The Men (and One Woman) Who Might Be Afghanistan's Next President
June 14, 2013
Jennifer Percy
Sweat in Peace
Memorializing the dead at CrossFit
May 1, 2013
Jack Goldsmith
How Obama Undermined the War on Terror
The President promised not to undercut the rule of law for expedience's sake. He did. Now we face the consequences.
April 30, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
A Brief History of 'Bags of Cash'
The CIA's Afghanistan bribes join a long and storied genre
March 28, 2013
Ahmed Rashid
Afghanistan After the War
Is peace possible?
January 8, 2013
Perry Stein
Gun Control Could Save Veterans' Lives
December 21, 2012
Luke Mogelson
The Last Men

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