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Aug 24, 2021
New Documents Reveal the Origins of America's War On Drugs
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by Benjamin T. Smith
Aug 24, 2021
I'm a Councilman in the Least Affordable Region in the U.S. Here's How We Can Fix the Housing Market
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by Sergio Lopez
Aug 24, 2021
Parents Had Dreamed of a Smooth Return to School This Fall. This Is the Nightmare We're Facing Instead
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by Aubrey Hirsch
Aug 24, 2021
'The Chair' on Netflix Hits Home for Academia's Women of Color
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by Beth Nguyen
Aug 23, 2021
Biden Must Keep U.S. Operatives in Afghanistan To Enable the Counterterrorism Mission
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by Bilal Y. Saab and Mick Mulroy
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Aug 22, 2021
Superficial Empathy and Watching the Afghan Tragedy On the Little Screen
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by Susanna Schrobsdorff
Aug 20, 2021
Afghans Deserve So Much Better Than This
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by Angelina Jolie
Aug 20, 2021
Leaving Afghanistan Was the Right Call, But May Haunt Biden
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by Ian Bremmer
Aug 20, 2021
What to Tell Your Kids About Happiness
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by William Stixrud and Ned Johnson
Aug 19, 2021
I Returned to Afghanistan 20 Years Ago to Help My Country. I’m Not Leaving Now
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by Anonymous
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Aug 19, 2021
What Pakistan Stands to Gain From the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
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by Anatol Lieven
Aug 17, 2021
The U.S. Offered My Family a Home After the Vietnam War. It Must Do the Same for Those Fleeing Afghanistan
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by Aimee Phan
Aug 17, 2021
How to Protect Kids From COVID-19
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by Lael M. Yonker and Anthony J. Fischer
Aug 16, 2021
American Leaders Made Defeat in Afghanistan Inevitable
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by David French
Aug 16, 2021
How the 20-Year War in Afghanistan Has Changed the U.S. Military
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by James Stavridis