This story was originally published at Prism.
by E. Lily Yu
After over a decade of covert and overt involvement in Afghanistan that cost billions of dollars under multiple administrations, the U.S. exited Afghanistan in 1992, claiming its primary objective had been met. Daniel Berger declared in The Baltimore Sun that “Afghanistan may be safely … left to the Afghans.
A Defense Department spokesperson said the actions were “necessary to address the threat and appropriately limited in scope.
Dr. Jill Biden truly is a remarkable person. She was a public school teacher, a child advocate, and became a loving mom to Beau and Hunter—Joe Biden’s two young sons who’d lost their mom and sister in a horrific car accident. Republicans have given up trying to smear her, because they can’t. They certainly can’t make the case that she doesn’t care.
I forgot what it’s like to have a classy, compassionate woman as our first lady.
Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns, or explain issues that impact our party.
Over the last week, there have been a lot of discussions in Democratic campaign circles regarding messaging.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said incentives to get people vaccinated aren’t working.
The former attorney general spoke to The Atlantic about his tense final few months working for the Trump administration.
Have you heard about the hit Jesus TV show? The one that launched with a more than $10 million crowdfunding drive? And that streams for free from its own app, where the view counter has surpassed 194 million as of this writing? And that is honestly much better than I expected?By the standards of independent media, The Chosen is a success.
When Carolyn Forché used the term “poetry of witness” in her introduction to a 1993 anthology, Against Forgetting, she was the first. By then, she’d spent time in the years from 1978 to 1980 in El Salvador, where she had witnessed violence at the hands of the country’s U.S.-backed military dictatorship.
I’m not sure how to live with it in my home.
Since 2012, most of the humans on Earth have been given a nearly annual reminder that there are entire nations of people who are measurably happier than they are. This uplifting yearly notification is known as the World Happiness Report.With the release of each report, which is published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the question is not which country will appear at the top of the rankings, but rather which Northern European country will.
Should Catholics who support legal abortion receive Communion, or have they separated themselves from the body of Christ by departing from what the Church teaches? The question took on new urgency, at least for some of the country’s Catholic bishops, when Joe Biden, a practicing Catholic who has promised to protect legal abortion, was elected president.
Hispanic communities are among those most eager to get Covid shots, but officials have struggled to address longstanding barriers to care.
Donald Trump is a man consumed with grievance against people he believes have betrayed him, but few betrayals have enraged him more than what his attorney general did to him. To Trump, the unkindest cut of all was when William Barr stepped forward and declared that there had been no widespread fraud in the 2020 election, just as the president was trying to overturn Joe Biden’s victory by claiming that the election had been stolen.
Parenting advice on etiquette, bookworms, and teen privacy.
Waiting to trace the exact lines of causation misses the point.
It’s probably legal, but it shouldn’t be.
She’s played us against each other our entire lives.
Even if we’re still waiting for a new mayor.
Republicans yanked away federal help to nudge people back to work. So far, it doesn’t seem to be working.
The red states’ moves potentially set up court fights over who has the power to police campus health just as schools prepare to reopen for in-person instruction.
Pressure is building on Biden to address the law’s underlying problems now that it has survived the latest Supreme Court challenge.
A CDC safety panel has determined there is a “likely association” between the Pfizer and Moderna shots and cases of myocarditis and pericarditis in vaccine recipients.
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The first Pride marches were intended to be a radical reclaiming of personhood and power by a community that society had shunned.
After many futile hours of shoveling dirt under the scorching Australian sun, Sean Doody began to think that he had made an embarrassing mistake and was—quite literally—digging himself into a hole. Doody is a herpetologist from the University of South Florida who has spent years studying Australia’s yellow-spotted goanna—a predatory monitor lizard with long claws, a whiplike tail, and a sinuous, muscular body that can reach five feet in length.
Parenting advice on kids in adult spaces, teenage dating, and hiring cleaning help.
The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.
It was probably a good idea for her to speak out.
Sniffies—an upstart, very upfront gay hookup site—is here to help.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.