Afghanistan
The Afghan Bag Man
The foiled arrest that explains America’s failure in Afghanistan.
BY SARAH CHAYES | MAY 4, 2013
Kabul's Unlikely New Ally
Has Pakistan decided it's finally time to embrace Afghanistan?
BY DANIEL SAGALYN | MAY 1, 2013
Springtime in Kabul
While the media obsessed over the missteps, Afghans were building a better future.
MAY/JUNE 2013
An Inconvenient Truth
Finally, proof that the United States has lied in the drone wars.
BY MICAH ZENKO | APRIL 10, 2013
Why Sticks and Stones Will Beat Our Drones
The persistent dangers of low-tech warfare.
BY ROSA BROOKS | APRIL 4, 2013
Let Them Go
Why John Brennan should give a passport and $10K to every Gitmo prisoner.
BY ROSA BROOKS | MARCH 28, 2013
Leaning Out
How the United States is abandoning Afghanistan's women.
BY AMIE FERRIS-ROTMAN | MARCH 20, 2013
This Is Not the Drone Debate We're Looking For
How Rand Paul and company are totally missing the point.
BY MICAH ZENKO | MARCH 19, 2013
What Vali Nasr Gets Wrong
A former State Department insider has written a blistering account of the Obama administration’s missteps in Afghanistan. But is he right?
BY SARAH CHAYES | MARCH 12, 2013
Wanted: Ph.D.s Who Can Win a Bar Fight
How to reform the Pentagon for "light footprint" interventions.
BY FERNANDO M. LUJÁN | MARCH 8, 2013
Good News from the Hindu Kush
How Afghanistan has changed for the better after more than a decade of war.
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH | MARCH 4, 2013
The Inside Story of How the White House Let Diplomacy Fail in Afghanistan
"My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience."
BY VALI NASR | MARCH 4, 2013
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?
We asked everyone from an ex-president of Pakistan to a former Afghan spy chief to weigh in.
MARCH 4, 2013
What Went Right?
Critics of the war are missing the big picture: Afghanistan is much better off today.
BY PETER BERGEN | MARCH 4, 2013
Lessons Learned (and Not)
Seven things we've learned after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MARCH 4, 2013
How Not to Withdraw from Afghanistan
Lessons from America's other war.
BY JIM MCDERMOTT, LAWRENCE WILKERSON | FEBRUARY 26, 2013
The Incredible Shrinking United Nations
Can anyone stop Turtle Bay from fading into obscurity?
BY SUZANNE NOSSEL | FEBRUARY 15, 2013
Love Is a Battlefield
Are the Taliban using sex to fight America?
BY MUJIB MASHAL | FEBRUARY 5, 2013
Why Is the United States Subsidizing Iran?
It's a veritable international mystery: How did Washington end up funding its adversaries in Tehran?
BY FREDERICK STARR | FEBRUARY 4, 2013
The Team of Buddies
Is President Obama’s national security team too like-minded and conservative about the limits of American power?
BY JAMES TRAUB | JANUARY 31, 2013
Mali Is Not a Stan
When it comes to covering Africa's latest conflict, it's suddenly amateur hour.
BY LAURA SEAY | JANUARY 30, 2013
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
How 'Casablanca' explains the sequester
BY GORDON ADAMS
The 'Onion' latest victim of Syrian Electronic Army's fat jokes
Video: The Navy's stealth drone makes its first arrested landing
BY JOHN REED
Is U.S. credibility really on the line in Syria?
BY DARYL G. PRESS AND JENNIFER LIND
May/June 2013
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