Paranoia Over Pakistan Paranoia Over Pakistan
Is Pakistan really in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban?
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Manan Ahmed
Attack of the Drones Attack of the Drones
Airstrikes, manned or unmanned, regulated or not, cannot build a better Afghan future.
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Priya Satia
The Ethnic Split The Ethnic Split
The tenacity of the Taliban insurgency is rooted in opposition to a foreign occupation that is particularly distasteful to the Pashtuns.
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Selig S. Harrison
The ‘Safe Haven’ Myth The ‘Safe Haven’ Myth
If we leave Afghanistan, Al Qaeda will be in no position to re-establish a base there.
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / John Mueller
High Cost, Low Odds High Cost, Low Odds
Staying in Afghanistan will cost many more American soldiers' lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Is it worth it?
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / Stephen M. Walt
Congressman Grayson Wins Another Round Congressman Grayson Wins Another Round
Florida Congressman Alan Grayson keeps provoking congressional Republicans and their media allies with fact-based challenges to the lies being used to block health care reform. T...
Oct 21, 2009 / John Nichols
Afghanistan: A Special Issue Afghanistan: A Special Issue
The essays in our forum call into question many of the myths and faulty assumptions about the best course of US policy in Afghanistan.
Oct 21, 2009 / Feature / The Nation
At Least, At Most: The Novels of Don Carpenter At Least, At Most: The Novels of Don Carpenter
With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
A City Unbottled: Mary Beard’s Pompeii A City Unbottled: Mary Beard’s Pompeii
In The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard unearths the seedier realities of the Roman social and political experience.
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Joy Connolly
A Makeshift World: On Thomas Demand A Makeshift World: On Thomas Demand
For the photographer Thomas Demand, Germany is like any other country because it is haunted by history.
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky