The U.S. still doesn’t know the pandemic’s origins. The need for answers has never been greater.
The recently released intelligence community report is inconclusive.
The U.S. government left its own journalists behind in Afghanistan
The Biden administration still has unfinished business in Kabul.
The departures from Afghanistan and Vietnam are not the same. But they raise the same haunting question.
What were we fighting for?
Afghan refugees will know indifference, bigotry — and also kindness — in America. They will also make it better.
Thousands have arrived, and many more are coming. We’ve seen this before; it’s America’s story.
Don’t forget Nicaragua’s political prisoners
Seven potential candidates to challenge dictator Daniel Ortega in a Nov. 7 election have been jailed, and another is under house arrest.
Our military’s sacrifice in Afghanistan was not in vain
Our troops service and sacrifice in Afghanistan helped purchase two decades of safety and security for the American people.
I was a combat interpreter in Afghanistan, where cultural illiteracy led to U.S. failure
Time after time, I witnessed U.S. forces making basic, ultimately disastrous, mistakes.
There’s a crisis of violence and racism in southern Mexico. It needs urgent attention.
The hodgepodge of contradictory immigration and asylum policies is not working, as has been made obvious in Chiapas.
What the U.S. and its allies can do to help Afghans who remained behind
The price of a failing and isolated Afghanistan will be paid by common Afghans.
Biden has been a good president. But the exit from Afghanistan has been an epic own-goal.
The exit from Afghanistan has been disastrous. Biden should have known better.
America is leaving thousands of people behind in Afghanistan. This is a moral disaster.
The Biden administration must use its leverage until every Afghan deserving of refuge has found it.
Forever war vs. hasty retreat: Afghanistan didn’t have to be a binary choice
Biden wanted a decisive departure. Living with ambiguity and watching developments might have been the better option.
Losing Afghanistan is bad. But we’re much safer from terrorism now than after 9/11.
Al-Qaeda and ISIS don’t pose the same kind of terror threat to the U.S. homeland they did 20 years ago.
Greenlighting the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul is a national disgrace
As The Post reports, the nightmare that began on Aug. 15 resulted from conscious U.S. choices.
Erin O’Toole’s big gamble to beat Justin Trudeau: Don’t be scary
O’Toole’s rebranding as a vastly more moderate general election candidate reflects sensitivity to conservatism’s popularity deficit in Canada.
Pakistan is addressing the challenges of a convergent media environment
Maliha Shahid, the spokesperson for the Embassy of Pakistan, responds to Hamid Mir’s Aug. 23 Global Opinions essay.
While Israelis and Palestinians fight, climate change threatens the land
Israelis and Palestinians should be devoting much of our attention to whether any of us will be able to live here in 2048.
The Kremlin’s old methods of rigging elections aren’t working like they used to
Russian voters are bracing for a new round of fraud.
ISIS-K is ready to fight the Taliban. Here’s how the group became a major threat in Afghanistan.
ISIS-K emerged in 2015 from disgruntled members of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as some of members of al-Qaeda.
Haiti is desperate. Americans can and should help.
The suffering in Haiti invites donor fatigue; it should do the opposite.
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- Richard Glover
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- David Ignatius
- Vladimir Kara-Murza
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