In ending the war in Afghanistan, Biden left the door open for more “counterterrorism” — with serious implications for our foreign policy, politics, and legal system.
Now our obligation is to those Afghans living with the consequences of our four decades of intervention.
Why is the far right jumping on the anti-vaccination bandwagon?
The U.S. attacks will not stop the Taliban or end the war.
It’s beautiful that there’s an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?
Child molestation is a very real problem. But the far right is far more interested in demonizing women, homosexuals, and the transgender community.
Pakistan is the latest country to reject letting private investors sue governments in tribunals. But Ecuador is back-tracking and the lawsuits continue to proliferate.
We’d better control machines before they control us.
Even as Biden sticks to the Afghanistan withdrawal, he’s launching strikes in Iraq and delaying a return to the Iran deal.
The Biden administration’s inconsistency on what gets called a “genocide” or “war crime” reflects a longer U.S. history of politicizing international law.