Joe Biden

From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy.

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize previously unimaginable forms of state-sanctioned barbarity.

Two new books argue that the War on Terror changed American politics, but what if the sources of its violence were already long present in the country?

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.

The US suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy for a turn away from imperialist ambitions.

The war in Afghanistan was nasty and brutish, marked by the same imperial arrogance that doomed U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

History offers a guide for why the American project in Afghanistan went wrong — and for the future of foreign engagement in the country.

The U.S. can’t win wars for countries.

The New Yorker staff writer Steve Coll on the humanitarian catastrophe that is now likely to engulf Afghan civilians, and how Joe Biden is shifting the blame.

On Pete Souza’s Obama.

Vaccines against smallpox during the Revolutionary War are one example of how mandates have protected the health of Americans for more than two centuries.

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.

Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.

A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.

The recent ProPublica exposé shows we need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.

Making sense of current fights over a word we borrowed from the French long ago.

Emily Bass on foreign aid and America's response to long-standing pandemics.

The Biden administration risks rehashing decades of failed policy.

A breakdown of how Woody Guthrie's hit song "This Land" has evolved over time.