TD Original

Covert Classrooms and Invisible Incomes: How Afghan Women Are Resisting

Saeedullah Safi / Truthdig Nov 13, 2025 By forging creative and invisible networks that allow them to survive, they are finding a way to be free despite the Taliban bans. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Middle East

Why Trump Won’t Get Bagram Back

Tanya Goudsouzian / Responsible Statecraft Oct 6, 2025 While the Taliban have of course objected to handing over the former U.S. base, Russia and China would also have something to say. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Global Voices

Humanitarian Crisis as Millions of Afghans Made to Return

Salma Niazi / Truthdig Sep 5, 2025 Pakistan and Iran are deporting Afghans back to poverty, repression and uncertainty in one of the decade’s largest forced migrations. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Immigration

Tortured by the Taliban, Locked Up in the U.S.

Kate Morrissey / Capital & Main Jul 22, 2025 An Afghan national faces an increasingly opaque path toward the protection he was promised. His situation is chilling but not unique. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Middle East

Left Behind: Afghanistan Is Now an Environmental Hellhole

Tanya Goudsouzian, Zekria Barakzai / Responsible Statecraft Apr 21, 2025 What did we think nearly 50 years of war and neglect was going to do to the country? Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Middle East

Training and Arming the Lebanese Army Would Be the Worst Kind of Déjà Vu

Jennifer Kavanagh / Responsible Statecraft Oct 15, 2024 What some in Joe Biden's administration appear to see as an opportunity to sideline Hezbollah is really a trap destined for failure. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

TD Interview

Coming of Age in the Shadow of 9/11

Eoin Higgins / Truthdig Sep 20, 2024 A new book offers a personal and political history of Bush-era America and its imprints on the present. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Film

The Limits of Being a Fly on the Wall

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Jul 18, 2024 With unprecedented access to the Taliban, the documentary “Hollywoodgate” makes promises it can’t keep. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Wounds of War

The Pentagon Refuses Responsibility for the Lives They’ve Ruined

Nick Turse / TomDispatch May 26, 2024 Over the decades, the DoD has been responsible for the deaths of scores of civilians, but compensating those harmed has never been a serious priority. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Opinion

The Peril of Forgetting Guantánamo

Karen J. Greenberg / TomDispatch Apr 8, 2024 Where’s the headline-making outrage over the never-ending travesty of Gitmo? Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Opinion

Moscow Attack Underscores Misguided Priorities of Russia and US

Anatol Lieven / Responsible Statecraft Mar 25, 2024 Russia and the U.S. both have the same enemies but we spend most of the time ignoring that fact. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Wounds of War

The ‘War on Terror’ and the Hell It Wrought After 9/11

Norman Solomon / The New Press Sep 11, 2023 Remembering the day that a war designed never to end began. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )