Half a world away from one another, the citizens of two nations are suffering as a result of the corruption and incompetence of the U.S.

The Afghanistan debacle has the president leaning in to a mode of leadership that neither suits the moment nor plays to his strengths.

In a rare display of bipartisanship, angry lawmakers of both parties are pushing the president to do more to aid Afghan refugees.

It normally takes more than two years to get a refugee out of the country. The president doesn’t have that kind of time.

The president gave a mostly honest accounting of the Afghanistan disaster, but he really skipped over the epic intel failure.

As the Taliban takes over the country, hawkish pundits and ex-officials in America are still clinging to the long-broken dream of nation-building.

Their bottomless culture-war obsessions have made a mess of the withdrawal debate.

It’s sickening to see the Taliban taking Kabul. But we could stay another 20 years, or 120, and nothing would change. We must learn the lesson of limits.

It’s tragic to watch the Taliban on the march. But the one unalterable truth we’ve learned is that we can’t create a nation out of gestures and statements.

Biden is convening a Summit for Democracy among friendly nations in December. It will only make China and Russia more hostile.

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

A book about Vladimir Putin has prompted several lawsuits by his billionaire cronies, including Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich. It’s part of a worrying trend.

The president is pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. But many will be headed to other war zones where America’s military grinds on.

For decades, they asked the lower classes to sacrifice on behalf of the revolution, while prioritizing tourism. Now protesters are saying they’ve had enough.

Companies like Israel’s NSO Group have revolutionized how governments spy on their citizens. Can they be tamed?

Because of a right-wing campaign grounded in fear of expansion of rights—a story familiar to American readers

The White House wants Facebook to crack down on anti-vax posts, but that would require the social media giant to transform on a fundamental level.

Reporting revealing that top military officials were prepared to resign to defy Trump shouldn’t make us feel better about the the state of U.S. institutions.

Rather than pursue another heavy-handed failure, the Biden administration should lift the unjust trade embargo and keep away from the island nation’s nascent protest movement.

America is finally pulling out of a losing war, after two decades of lies and deceit from the country’s military leaders.