topic: Afghanistan
January 28, 2015
Clint Eastwood's American Sniper has amassed a staggering $200 million as of this week. Adapted from the best-selling memoir by Chris Kyle...
blog
January 24, 2015
When the United States first ratified the Geneva Conventions in 1955, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations categorized the agreements...
blog
October 11, 2014
Coming of age after postmodernism often seems like living a parody of our forebears’ concerns; it feels like we are testing the Society of...
Opinion
August 24, 2014
One has to hand it to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Since the outbreak of what was initially a popular revolt against his regime in...
Conversations
August 14, 2014
Anna Badkhen's lyrical narratives, filed from war zones all over the world, never skimp on important historical context; she tells the...
column
March 30, 2014
I was not in Kabul in 1996. That was the last time the Taliban marched into a city, the last time the world was not watching, the last time...
Reviews
December 13, 2013
Audiences will notice that the most striking aspect of Nagieb Khaja's new film, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone , is how...
Opinion
November 7, 2013
Two recent stories about Guantánamo from two of the country's most respected news organizations highlight just how little attention the...
Art
May 17, 2013
In the random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my factless autobiography, my lifeless...
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