Taliban Promise Peace, but Doubt and Fear Persist
KABUL, Afghanistan — For the first time since retaking power in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s leaders on Tuesday sketched out what their control of the country could look like, promising peace at home and urging the world to look past their history of violence and repression.“We don’t want Afghanistan to be a battlefield anymore — from…
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Lina Khan, the new chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, is a standout among a new generation of scholars who are pushing to reverse decades of antitrust atrophy. Her breakout moment came with a 2017 article in The Yale Law Journal, arguing that Amazon was engaged in anticompetitive behavior even though its conduct hadn’t resulted…
‘We Haven’t Slept, We Haven’t Eaten’: U
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.SACRAMENTO — They call themselves the lucky people, the Afghans who made it out in time.Lucky, they say, but guilt-ridden, shocked and angry.Tens of thousands of Afghans have resettled in the United States in the two decades since…
For America, and Afghanistan, the Post-9/11 Era Ends Painfully
An era that began two decades ago with the shock of hijacked planes flying into American skyscrapers drew to a close this week with desperate Afghans clinging to American planes as they tried to escape the chaos of Kabul. Some fell; one was found dead in the landing gear.A colossal bipartisan investment of American force,…
Intelligence Warned of Afghan Military Collapse, Despite Biden’s Assurances
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.WASHINGTON — Classified assessments by American spy agencies over the summer painted an increasingly grim picture of the prospect of a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and warned of the rapid collapse of the Afghan military, even as President…
Reflections on Gina Haspel’s Confirmation
See original Here In short, accountability will not come from the top By Robert Crawford It is appalling that the Senate would approve for CIA Director someone who was directly involved in carrying out torture. Haspel should have been disqualified from the beginning, no matter what she told the Senators during and after her confirmation…
Would God Really Snatch a Suckling Baby From Its Mother’s
See original here Trump's evil border policy is a look-the-other-way, not-my-fault species of moral putrefaction brought to you by the most ostentatiously Christian political party in one of the most noisily Christian nations on Earth By Leonard Pitts Jr. What if God were one of us? Singer Joan Osborne famously asked that question in 1995.…
Trump’s Mean Boy Nation
See original here Never forget that the president's gang may be incompetent at a spectacular level but they're cruel and nasty to the boneBy Michael Winship Our "I alone can fix it" president has gotten us in another fix, all right. Of course, whenever he screws up big time, Mister I Alone starts blaming everyone…
Why We’re Protesting Trump’s Visit by Flying an Inflatable Trump
See original here To really get through to Trump, you have to get down on his level and talk to him in a language he understands: personal insults. By Leo Murray We all have the odd laugh-or-cry moment, and nations are no exception. Trump's visit to the UK this month is just such a moment.…
ACLU Says Less Than Half of Kids Trump Ripped From
See original here "These kids have already suffered so much because of this policy, and every extra day apart just adds to that pain." By Jake Johnson, staff writer Forcing families that have already suffered the immense trauma of being wrenched apart and jailed separately for weeks to wait even longer before they are reunited,…