The coronavirus pandemic threw everyone into Walden Pond.
By Cal Newport
From March: How peace talks with the Taliban and the prospect of an American withdrawal created the conditions for a collapse.
By Dexter Filkins
From 2016: A Profile of Afghanistan’s former President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country on Sunday amid the Taliban’s advance.
By George Packer
From 2002: The city of Kandahar was full of reminders that the Taliban were not always what they seemed to be. The Taliban again seized the country’s second-largest city on Friday.
By Jon Lee Anderson
From 2001: With the Taliban gone, a peace of sorts came to Kabul. The Taliban again seized the Afghan capital on Sunday.
Renewed attention to antitrust has been focussed on Big Tech, but concentration in agriculture may be an underlying source of rural America’s pro-Trump political backlash.
By Dan Kaufman
G.O.P. leaders are sticking to an anti-science message that equates some of the most routine public functions with tyranny.
By Peter Slevin
Behind all the procedural wrangling are ambitious efforts to tackle pressing problems that have been neglected for far too long.
By John Cassidy
Next Monday, the minds behind the shows “American Utopia” and “Lackawanna Blues” will discuss Broadway’s comeback, exclusively for subscribers.
The fewer clues you need, the more points you receive.
By Liz Maynes-Aminzade
Bear Beach, Actual-Fire Island, Demon Bay, and more.
By Jiji Lee and Patrick Clair
By Zoe Si
