Cheryl Benard

Cheryl Benard is an academic and an author.

Has Israel’s strategy changed?

15 Oct 2024

How Biden blindsided Netanyahu

24 Jul 2024

The first lesson of diplomacy: karma’s a bitch

25 Mar 2024

Two years on, the Afghanistan disaster hasn’t happened Media coverage obscures uncomfortable elements of the Taliban's success

15 Aug 2023

The impossible truth about Afghanistan

28 Jul 2023

The false logic of slavery reparations

25 May 2023

Behind the scenes at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago speech Bikers and businessmen congregated in a gold-leafed ballroom

05 Apr 2023

Is America turning into Pakistan?

21 Mar 2023

The Taliban must purge itself

02 Jan 2023

Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death will split the Taliban The assassination has exposed a rift between hardliners and pragmatists

03 Aug 2022

The Taliban’s chaotic war on women

27 May 2022

The loneliest Russian in the world

02 May 2022

The West is starving Afghanistan

17 Nov 2021

The truth about Afghan women

17 Sep 2021