25 Aug 2021 - 1:05am

Why were we shocked by Afghanistan? The West has always been deluded about imperialism

Philip Hensher

20.08

The man who lost Afghanistan Ghani tried to build a nation on books and a TED Talk

Will Lloyd

26.07

America’s spiteful foreign policy Its plan for the Middle East has been corrupted by petulant party politics

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

03.07

America’s failed Machiavelli Donald Rumsfeld's shrewd tactics were ultimately his downfall

Edward Luttwak

03.06

This is Britain’s 9/11 moment Boris Johnson is set to repeat the same mistakes as George W. Bush

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

15.01

Impeachment is more dangerous than Trump The aftermath of the Capitol 'coup' echoes the post-9/11 era

Michael Tracey

30.09

How paranoia drives politics Richard Evans's new book about conspiracy theories asks: who benefits when truth itself is unstable?

Daniel Kalder

29.06

The West’s monumental crisis The current iconoclasm of liberal democracy is a cautionary tale of civilisational collapse

Aris Roussinos

01.06

Covid has exposed America as a failed state It's hard to view the US at this point as anything other than a cautionary tale

Aris Roussinos

03.01

Will China get stuck in the Afghan quagmire? As the US withdraws after two decades of war, how will Beijing protect its interests?

Mike Martin