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America's parting drone attack in Afghanistan, which killed an aid worker and his family, is emblematic of the entire drone war

The Taliban's cruelties are horrendous, but withholding international support and maintaining blanket sanctions will only hurt the long-suffering Afghan people.

The military stood up to Donald Trump. Who will now stand up to the military?

The United States has withdrawn its troops from Afghanistan. Only 750 military bases to go.

Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was the resurrection of a doctrine that should have been buried after Vietnam.

The US was still riding high in the aftermath of the end of the Cold War in 2000. Today, it is one major power among many.

Democracy promotion-it was supposed to be a method by which the United States remade the world to look more like us

In ending the war in Afghanistan, Biden left the door open for more "counterterrorism" - with serious implications for our foreign policy, politics, and legal system

Afghanistan is not the only place at risk of takeover by extremists

Today's far right is not conservative: it detests the state and prefers vigilante justice.

The cleric may be push a deal on Iran's nuclear programme more effectively than reformists.

If only first use is prohibited, it stands to reason that second or third or fourth use is permitted.

While most Americans go about their calmer post-Trumpian lives under the Biden administration, a significant number of their fellow citizens live in a different reality.

Operation Cast Lead was supposed to eliminate the offensive capabilities of Hamas the Palestinian political faction that had taken over Gaza the year before.

It's useful to bear the German experience in mind as the US again tackles its 'immigration crisis'.

Climate change poses an existential threat. That doesn't mean we should further empower an already bloated Pentagon

Covid-19 is not the Black Death, but its impact may be civilizational, weakening the mighty, raising up the modest, and rearranging axes of power across the globe

Facebook and Google's dominance of developing-world markets has had catastrophic effects. US regulators should take note

Donald Trump in the United States, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, and others were seen as taking advantage of the crisis to advance their me-first agendas

Trust is the fuel that makes global institutions run. And it looks as though we've passed Peak Trust