The 1 Thing Teachers Can Do to Protect Students
It’s time to go back to school, and to offer students the safest possible return.
Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight
Not all battles can be won with language, arguments, conferences, or diplomacy.
Demography Is Not Destiny
New numbers provide a reminder of the fluidity of American identity.
The Internal Contradictions of Republicans’ COVID-19 Politics
Crises have the power to expose tensions within ideologies, and the current pandemic has made some of those in contemporary American conservatism vividly apparent.
History Won’t Help Us Now
We have no historical precedent for this moment.
The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights
It’s remarkable how quickly liberals abandoned the women of Afghanistan.
This War Needed to End
It was a mistake to believe that bombs and missiles and drones and tanks could ever bring peace.
What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban
I spent 600 hours listening in on the people who now run Afghanistan. It wasn’t until the end of my tour that I understood what they were telling me.
Biden’s Long Trail of Betrayals
Why is the president so consistently wrong on major foreign-policy matters?
This Is Not the Taliban 2.0
The group’s claims of having changed are probably more reassuring to those unfamiliar with its history.
We Have One Last Chance to Save Our Allies
If the United States acts now, it can still evacuate tens of thousands of Afghans whose lives are at risk for the aid they gave us.
The Plywood Army
America has always had one foot out the door in Afghanistan.
Go Ahead. Vaccinate the Kids.
The risk of vaccinating children will never be zero, but the alternative is so much worse.
So Much for a ‘Foreign Policy for the Middle Class’
Biden’s answer to Trump’s approach lasted only as long as its first major test.
Why the Afghan Army Folded
America has historically struggled to train foreign militaries.
Biden’s ‘America First’ Policy on Afghanistan
The president has prioritized American troops and interests over the fate of those in Afghanistan.
Biden Was Right
The president made a difficult but necessary choice.
A Moment for Soul-Searching
The United States owes its Afghan allies careful scrutiny of its institutional and personal failures—without recrimination, but also without excuses.
Afghanistan Is Your Fault
The American public now has what it wanted.
I’m Not Afraid of COVID-19. I’m Afraid of School Shootings.
I’m eager to get back to the classroom, but my fear is overcoming my excitement.