Afghanistan may be considered the graveyard of empires. Over the last half-century, other powers have stepped in, whether to forcibly take over or to simply bring stability and democracy to this country. In August, this happened once more as the Taliban...

This previously ran in our September 2021 print issue. On Aug. 31, 2021, the longest war in American history officially ended. The last American soldiers in Afghanistan have finally gone, and that’s a good thing. A 20-year-long war,  lengthier than...