Pentagon Orders Airlines to Help Evacuate People Fleeing Afghanistan
Families evacuated from Kabul ride a bus after arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport on August 21.Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The US government is ordering six commercial airlines to help evacuate tens of thousands of Americans and Afghan…
“I Don’t Understand What the Surprise Is”: How the West Stopped Paying Attention to Afghanistan
Gozargah school in Kabul in 2008. Courtesy of Adriana Carranca Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In the days before the Taliban seized control of Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani left Afghanistan, veteran Brazilian journalist and writer Adriana Carranca received a message from an…
Trump’s “Deal” With the Taliban Set the Stage for Afghanistan’s Collapse
Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul on August 15, 2021.Zabi Karimi/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The weeks ahead will bring exhaustive debate about the grim developments in Afghanistan and how the Biden administration handled the final…
The Afghanistan Debacle: How Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden Bamboozled the American Public
Taliban fighters are seen on the back of a vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan after seizing control of the city.AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Editor’s note: This must-read essay from David Corn appears in his new newsletter, This Land. We’re still piloting the project,…
We Have the War on Terror to Thank for Donald Trump
Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Spencer Ackerman has had as interesting—and tempestuous—a relationship to national security reporting as anyone in the field. In his nearly two decades on the beat, Ackerman exposed Islamophobic training sessions at the FBI, won a…
The Anti-War Movement Still Wants Biden to Get Out of Afghanistan, Even if It Gets Messy
Pete Marovich/New York Times/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The US military withdrawal from Afghanistan is nearly complete, well ahead of the Biden administration’s September 11 deadline. That speedy approach, though, has led to bizarre moments of miscommunication with Afghan allies and…