Ann Jones is a journalist and author whose works include Kabul in Winter (2006) and War Is Not Over When It’s Over (2010), both from Metropolitan Books. Her latest book is called They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return From America’s Wars—The Untold Story (Dispatch Books).
Farkhunda was murdered on the streets of Kabul while thousands looked on. Now Afghan women are rising up.
Americans living abroad are burdened with a difficult task: explaining a country that doesn't make much sense.
Long advertised as a flaship program for American cultural diplomacy, the Fulbright Program is now facing devastating budget cuts.
Since 2002, veterans have been committing murder individually and in groups, killing family, friends, strangers and—in appalling numbers—themselves.
Here’s the cost of American-style war.