Jonathan Schell (1943-2014) was the Lannan Fellow at The Nation Institute. His books include The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People, an analysis of people power, and The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.
As the Taliban retreat in Afghanistan, the Bush administration has ample opportunity to expand its far-reaching ‘war on terror.’
With the Taliban engaged in Afghanistan, where will the US now train its sights?
The sudden and unexpected collapse of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The "war on terror" is causing an escalation of retaliatory thinking.
Politics govern the increasingly difficult war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
I was somehow unprepared by television for what I saw when I arrived at Ground Zero.