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Jon Lee Anderson

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Growing Up U.S.A.I.D.

As a child in postings around the world, the author witnessed the agency’s complex relationship with American empire—and with autocrats everywhere.

by Jon Lee Anderson via The New Yorker on February 25, 2025

To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban

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Pipe Hitters

American special operators brought their tactics in the global war on terror back home.

by Grayson Scott via The Baffler on August 14, 2025

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The Lie of Nation Building

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

by Fintan O’Toole via New York Review of Books on September 8, 2021

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