In 1969 I was in Istanbul, living in my VW camper, on my way to India. Istanbul was so exotic and the Sultanahmet district was seedy with...

Strangers, Lack Of Kindness And America’s Most Profound Shame You know that long skinny sliver of land that juts out of northeast...

He's Going To Deport Them Back To The Taliban I was in Afghanistan for extended periods twice. The first time was in 1969, so before the...

Can Things Get Even Worse? If later today, Trump sent out another social media post falsely claiming that the the Trump supporter who...

Yesterday, Nate Cohn mused about the new American politics that has come in Trump’s wake … which can even feels like it has been turned...

An Antidote For The Usual GOP 'Alternative' Factoids! by Noah Ever since psychopathic Traitor Trump went to Arlington Cemetery the other...

Hamid Karzai & Sam Bankman-Fried Last week you may have caught us celebrating when a judge rescinded Sam Bankman Fried’s bail and tossed...

When I was weighing the pros and cons of buying my forever home. the size of the master bedroom on the second floor was a huge plus for...

I got to Afghanistan for the first time in 1969 and I just fell in love with the country. Driving there was more like traveling back in...

Northern Ohio’s 9th district, which stretches form the suburbs west and south of Cleveland, along the coast of Lake Erie through Lorian...

I grew up thinking the kitchen was a foreign, highly specialized place and not meant for me, except when I wanted to sneak in and grab...

The first time I got to Afghanistan the piece was relatively peaceful. It was 1969, pre-Russian invasion, pre-Taliban, pre-US invasion....

Yesterday, Natalie Andrews and Eliza Collins reported that as Republicans prepare for the midterms they are unified around Señor...

As part of it's extensive Presidents' Day coverage, The Forward published a delightful piece by PJ Grisar-- Who Were The Most (And Least)...

-by Eric Zuesse On February 11th, the New York Times bannered “Spurning Demand by the Taliban, Biden Moves to Split $7 Billion in Frozen...

New polls released today by Gallup, Morning Consult and YouGov all show Biden's job approval ratings nearly in really miserable...

This morning the Atlantic Council put out a paper, Afghanistan Is About To Collapse. Here's What The US Must Do About It by a dozen...

Who's To Blame? The U.S. finally withdrew from Afghanistan, the smoothest and most successful withdrawal from that country since... I...

I spent a lot more time in Holland, France, Turkey, Morocco, Thailand... that I did in Afghanistan but I write more about Afghanistan...

Did Afghanistan come home to Minnesota?