Democrats, Here’s How to Lose in 2022. And Deserve It. nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opi… Don't let this opportunity go to waste!

Joe Manchin and Stacey Abrams Can Meet on Common Ground nytimes.com/2021/03/11/opi… I loved the last sentence in the article.

A Close-Up Picture of Partisan Segregation, Among 180 Million Voters nytimes.com/interactive/20… Is there any way out??

The U.S. War on Drugs is Driving the Displacement Crisis fpif.org/the-u-s-war-on…

Biden orders the flags to half mast again, in honor of the Capitol police officer killed, for what will be the third time in two weeks (the others were after the Atlanta and Boulder shootings). We're a nation in constant grief.

Maryland enacts landmark police overhaul, first state to repeal police bill of rights washingtonpost.com/local/md-polit… This is huge.

I wrote this article about Afghan government and the Taliban in 2009. My arguments are still relevant. fpif.org/dont_negotiate…

Has anyone wondered by the Afghan National Army is incapable of prevailing against the Taliban? Here's an article I published in 2012. smallwarsjournal.com/blog/training-…

The Trump G.O.P.’s Plot Against Liz Cheney — and Our Democracy nytimes.com/2021/05/11/opi… Those of us who have done election observation in other countries will no longer have credibility to observe and assess.

Decentralization Could Reduce Conflict in Postwar Afghanistan fpif.org/decentralizati… We need not resign ourselves to turning Afghanistan over to the Taliban.

via New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2021/05/14/opi…

Life Under Occupation:The Misery at the Heart of the Conflict nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/… In 2006 I lived in Ramallah and worked in East Jerusalem on a USAID project. Every day I was harassed by the Israeli border guards at the Qalandia checkpoint. The trip could take hours.

Opinion | It’s time to end five decades of strategic fallacy washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… Kamala Harris can't address "root causes" of migration if she doesn't address the War on Drugs. See also fpif.org/the-u-s-war-on…

Still thinking about the nuclear-armed, openly apartheid Israeli government calling a partial ice cream boycott "terrorism." Phyllis Bennis Institute for Policy Studies fpif.org/ben-jerrys-is-…

Here's a piece I wrote in 2012. We should not be surprised at Kabul's collapse. smallwarsjournal.com/blog/training-…

Great idea!

To find parallels to states sparring over abortion jurisdiction, "you’re looking at fugitive slave cases, because there are not many times in history when states are trying to tell other states what to do in this way.” nytimes.com/2022/05/06/opi…

Garage doors: still missing. (In Bend Ore.)

The U.S. Has Led the War on Drugs Abroad for Decades, and It’s Been a Staggering Failure nytimes.com/2022/09/07/opi…

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