It’s Been 21 Years and Politicians Still Say the Same Things About 9/11
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Twenty-one years ago today, hijackers directed two passenger airlines into the World Trade Center’s twin towers and another into Pentagon. A fourth flight, likely headed toward the US Capitol, crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. The series of…
The Fall of Kabul Through the Eyes of the Women Who Survived It
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Since November, I have spent most of my days sitting in various rooms just a short drive from my Maryland home with newly arrived Afghan families, those fortunate enough to have made it through the bloodied Kabul…
“It’s Not Over and They Have to Fix What They Did”: An Afghan Refugee Demands the US Not Forget Her Family
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Weeda has had to leave her home twice in the past few years, each time without saying goodbye to her friends or family. The second time was this fall, when the 25-year-old Afghan arrived…
The Heartbreaking Work of Resettling Afghan Refugees When You’ve Been an Afghan Refugee
Afghan refugees arrive to Dulles International Airport.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The days and weeks leading up to and following the tumultuous withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan were chaos for Sharifa Abbasi. The Afghan-born immigration attorney who…
The Afghanistan War Is Over. But the Defense Budget Is Still About to Go Up.
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.After the United States military stopped fighting wars in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, Congress went on to appropriate less funding for defense in subsequent years. But now that the US has pulled out of Afghanistan, ending…
As the US Fled Kabul, Its Final Airstrike May Have Targeted an Innocent Man
The car targeted by the US’s August 29 strike.Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.A blockbuster New York Times investigation released late on Friday used security camera footage and witness testimony to poke holes in the official US military account of a retaliatory…