Afghan Evac Update: Long hard months for Afghans

Afghan Evac Update: Long hard months for Afghans

Basir and Jafar, Coordinators It has been a terribly long and hard two months since we last sent an update. Our days have been consumed with trying to help Afghans figure out their logistical and legal options for evacuation and resettling. While good news often feels...
ON THE MEDIA | A prayer for a humbler media

ON THE MEDIA | A prayer for a humbler media

“It’s time to acknowledge that the enduring belief of American media’s exceptionalism is toxic, and if it continues, it will take down democracy with it.” Source: A prayer for a humbler media, Neiman Lab, Predictions for Journalism 2022 By j. Siguru...
Studying an airport to try and get 8 families, 36 people to safety

Studying an airport to try and get 8 families, 36 people to safety

Studying this google image to try and learn how my Afghan friends, trainees, mentors, beloved people can get out of this terror. They must reach Abbey gate and there are tens of thousands trying to do the same. No whisper, no message, no signal.Friends have faced...
ON AFGHANISTAN | Exit Strategy

ON AFGHANISTAN | Exit Strategy

There will be no power-sharing, no reconciliation, no peace of the brave. The United States will be able to pick sides in the conflict, a luxury it does not now have. For decades it has been subject to implicit and explicit Pakistani threats to choke the supply lines...
ON DEVELOPMENT | How US Police Became Paramilitaries

ON DEVELOPMENT | How US Police Became Paramilitaries

That beat cops so often look like troops is not just a problem of “optics.” There is, in fact, a “positive and statistically significant relationship between transfers [to police of military equipment] and fatalities from officer-involved shootings,” according to...