Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigJun 10, 2014
"The Daily Show" host pokes holes in all the ridiculous Fox News arguments about prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl and his father Bob being Muslim terrorists and points out that facial hair is not evidence that someone is a terrorist. Case in point: the beardless Las Vegas shooting suspects. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigJun 6, 2014
Bringing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl home was the right thing to do, and President Obama did it in a mostly reasonable way. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigJun 6, 2014
Far removed from the din of professional Beltway hecklers, Bob Bergdahl, father of former Taliban prisoner Bowe Bergdahl, has been struggling for his son's release. The ordeal of the son, and the disciplined, contemplative activism of the father, projects the U.S. war in Afghanistan through a different lens. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / TruthdigJun 5, 2014
Here are good mustaches and beards and bad mustaches and beards as imagined in American popular culture and war propaganda, as a way of contextualizing today’s hero-worship of the backwoods conservatives of "Duck Dynasty" and villainization of the backwoods conservatives of the Taliban. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJun 2, 2014
The surprise announcement by President Obama on Saturday of the negotiated release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, captured in 2009, is wonderful news for him, his family and America. But what does it tell us about the Taliban, Afghanistan and Pakistan? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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