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The Fall of Kabul

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  1. husarska Anna Husarska

    A Glimmer of Hope for Afghanistan’s Girls and Women

    Anna Husarska reports on a groundbreaking effort to foster female entrepreneurship in Kabul’s impoverished communities.
  2. sherif10_WAKIL KOHSARAFP via Getty Images_afghanistan girls WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images

    Giving Afghan Girls the Education They Demand

    Yasmine Sherif urges public- and private-sector donors to increase funding for non-formal schooling in the country.
  3. brown97_ Bilal GulerAnadolu Agency via Getty Images_afghanistan girls Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

    The Taliban’s Gender Crimes Against Humanity

    Gordon Brown urges the international community to mobilize against the Afghan regime’s war on women and girls.
  4. brown89_ MOHSEN KARIMIAFP via Getty Images_afghanistan protests MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images

    Afghanistan’s Girls and Women Fight Back

    Gordon Brown & Yasmine Sherif call on the international community to help the country’s girls secure their right to an education.
  5. bildt102_Nava JamshidiGetty Images_kabul one year Nava Jamshidi/Getty Images

    Did the Afghan Failure Lead to the Ukraine War?

    Carl Bildt revisits the fall of Kabul to consider its implications for America and the world, one year later.
  6. chellaney154_WAKIL KOHSARAFP via Getty Images_afghanistan Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images

    The Afghan Abyss

    Brahma Chellaney views last year's disastrous US withdrawal as just the start of a long series of policy blunders.
  7. kupchan9_Bilal GulerAnadolu Agency via Getty Images_afghanistanfood Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

    America's Afghan Imperative

    Charles A. Kupchan & Douglas Lute urge the US to lead international efforts to prevent the country from becoming a failed state.
  8. brahimi4_Bilal GulerAnadolu Agency via Getty Images_famine afghanistan Bilal GulerAnadolu Agency via Getty Images

    How to Prevent Famine in Afghanistan

    Lakhdar Brahimi says that three priorities should guide the international community’s efforts to prevent mass starvation.
  9. watkins25_Sayed Khodaiberdi SadatAnadolu Agency via Getty Images_hunger afghanistan Sayed Khodaiberdi SadatAnadolu Agency via Getty Images

    End the Economic Blockade of Afghanistan

    Kevin Watkins calls for an immediate resumption of international funding before crisis turns into catastrophe.
  1. wagner30_HoustonChronicleHearstNewspapersGettyImages_us_solar_plant_danger Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images

    What Will Trump’s Victory Mean for the Climate?

    Gernot Wagner notes that the president-elect’s proposed policies will mainly harm America, not the global energy transition.
  2. benami219_MANDEL NGANAFP via Getty Images_trumpnetanyahu Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

    The Causes and Consequences of Trump’s Comeback

    Shlomo Ben-Ami considers the reasons for – and implications of – US Democrats’ resounding election failure.
  3. buruma219_AngelaWeissGettyImages_hinchcliffe_trump_rally2 Angela Weiss/Getty Images

    The Laugh Is on the Democrats

    Ian Buruma sees Donald Trump’s victory as a rebellion of the culturally dispossessed who relish his insult comedy.
  4. crider2_EuropaPressNewsGettyImages_teresa_ribera Europa Press News/Getty Images

    The EU Must Break Up Big Tech

    Cori Crider explains how reining in digital giants’ outsize power would boost competition and help combat climate change.
  5. macron9_Sanja DjordjevicGetty Images_solidaritysustainabilityworld Sanja Djordjevic/Getty Images

    The Case for Solidarity Levies

    A promising way to mobilize more climate finance for developing countries is to expand the use of “solidarity levies”: global levies on carbon dioxide emissions and other economic activities that channel proceeds to developing countries. The benefits of scaling up such measures would be far-reaching.

  6. leonard105_JONATHAN ERNSTPOOLAFP via Getty Images_trump europe JONATHAN ERNSTPOOLAFP via Getty Images

    Living in Trump’s World

    Mark Leonard explains what European leaders must do to prepare for the radical changes promised by the US president-elect.
  7. op_whatley22_Chip SomodevillaGetty Images_trump Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    PS Roundtable: The Return of Trump

    PS Commentators

    Although Americans – and the world – have been spared the kind of agonizing uncertainty that followed the 2020 election, a different kind of uncertainty has set in. While few doubt that Donald Trump's comeback will have far-reaching implications, most observers are only beginning to come to grips with what those could be.

    consider what the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election will mean for America and the world.
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    Inequality Is Destroying Mental Health

    Olivier De Schutter & Kate Pickett propose raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy to improve well-being in unequal countries.
  9. krueger36_Feng LiGetty Images_china trade Feng Li/Getty Images

    How Europe Could Benefit from Trump’s Second Term

    Daniel Gros urges policymakers to focus on defusing trade tensions with the bloc’s largest export partner.

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