The limits of Biden’s foreign-policy conversion
The president did the right thing in Afghanistan, but that doesn’t mean he’ll abandon his long-standing support for American interventionism.
Diplomacy is the only way forward in Afghanistan now
The Taliban aren’t likely to be America’s friends. But they don’t have to be our enemy either.
The inevitability of the Afghan tragedy
Two decades of delusion and confusion about America’s endgame in Afghanistan don’t make the Taliban takeover any less of a catastrophe. Just don’t call it a surprise.
The empty gesture of imposing sanctions on Cuba and Iran
External pressure hurts ordinary people and doesn’t budge incalcitrant regimes. But tough-guy posturing pays off for American presidents.
America has its own virus secrets
Our military’s long history of biological research complicates the quest to clear up what really happened in Wuhan.
