Afghanistan

There’s been a glut of bad news of in politics of late, but one congressional leader is showing spine uncharacteristic for many congressional Democrats — Nancy Pelosi. I’m [...]

Two related issues were in the news today, the President’s call for a spending freeze on federal programs, except for the national security state of course, and senior UN envoy in [...]

In the midst of a struggle to provide health care for millions of Americans and create more jobs, President Obama has just announced that he will freeze non-security domestic spending at $447 [...]

Back in November, reports leaked that US Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry had sent secret cables to the State Department expressing his concerns about sending additional troops to [...]

Last week, Bill Moyers interviewed Greg Mortenson, a man who has worked on the front lines of the war in Afghanistan not as a soldier, but as a humanitarian. Mortenson’s non-profit organization, [...]

Check out Le Monde Diplomatique‘s interview with Malalai Joya, who we’ve written about here several times before. They present a bit of her compelling biography, as well as some of [...]

Happy New Year! There are just a few hours left to this decade, and these are my top four reasons why you should click here to help us reach our year-end goal with a gift before 12am tonight. 1. [...]

A lot can happen in a decade. So as we end this one, I ask you to think big. What do you hope the world will look like by the end of the next decade? Do you think it’s a vision worth [...]

For years the US has been sending Predator drones — unnmanned bombers — into remote areas of Pakistan, on the hunt for Taliban and al Qaeda. Even though these raids have been [...]

Many of us are still reeling from President Obama’s announcement that he is going to escalate the war in Afghanistan. Part of the tragedy is that we could be using far better tools than blunt [...]