Madhavankutty Pillai
The problem with Facebook and YouTube banning the Taliban
The crescent over Kabul today clarifies how America, on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, diminished the idea of freedom
The US has grievously hurt its international credibility with a self-inflicted defeat and humiliation in Afghanistan. Its enemies can only be celebrating. The security and humanitarian disaster that the Biden administration has unleashed in Afghanistan will likely unravel whatever is left of American primacy
The US took four presidents, thousands of lives, a trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban
While the power elite are safe abroad, common folk of Afghanistan hope against hope that their worst fears don’t come true
America has squandered $2 trillion and thousands of lives trying to rebuild Afghanistan. Yet it never seemed to understand it
In conversation with C Christine Fair
The 25-year-old Pashtun tribal leader is charismatic and defiant, much to the anguish of the powerful Pakistani army