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Salon.com October 2, 2001 Janelle Brown	The Taliban's bravest opponents An underground resistance of Afghan women risks torture and execution to alert the world to the regime's atrocities. One freedom fighter tells her story...
Salon.com October 19, 2001 Janelle Brown	Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition After spending 18 months studying Afghanistan, Dr. Lynn Amowitz reports that life under the Taliban is more brutal -- and more complicated -- than we suspected...
Salon.com December 3, 2001 Janelle Brown	Any day now Afghan women hope to use the momentum of international recognition to secure civil rights and a role in government...
Salon.com September 27, 2001 Steve Kettmann	Creating "many, many Osamas" Novelist William Vollmann says if the U.S. convinces Afghans of bin Laden's guilt, they'll support the move against him. If not, only "genocide" will defeat them...
Salon.com September 19, 2001 Laura Miller	The "enemy" we barely know A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S....
Salon.com December 12, 2001 Janelle Brown	Ready for her close-up A doctor, educator, human rights activist and mother, Habiba Sarabi longs for a chance to work -- legally -- back home in Afghanistan...
Salon.com December 11, 2001 Janelle Brown	The women behind the women of Afghanistan Hena Efat was smuggled into the Afghan Women's Summit; her plan is to go home and fight some more...
Parameters Spring 2004 Sean M. Maloney	Afghanistan: From Here to Eternity? American policy in Afghanistan is at a crossroads, or so it appears. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested in May 2003 that the war on terror in Afghanistan was in "cleanup" or "mop up" phase.
Salon.com September 25, 2001 Anthony York	Salon's war reader Don't know much about Central Asian history? Osama bin Laden? The Web provides a crash course in what's needed to understand "America's new war"...
ifeminists July 10, 2009 Wendy McElroy	Arm the Afghan women Give an Afghan woman the right to own a gun and you protect her long after the current tragedy has become old news. A gun in the hand of a mother who is protecting her child may be the most humanitarian relief of all.
Salon.com December 17, 2001 Tamim Ansary	Leaping to conclusions Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future...
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	What the Firing of 4-Star Gen. McKiernan Means for Afghan War: Analysis What is the strategy in Afghanistan?
Salon.com December 13, 2001 Janelle Brown	An Afghan aristocrat fights for equality Leila Enayat-Seraj rolls up her couture sleeves to rescue Afghan art and restore civil rights for women...
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Manjeet Kripalani	Operation: Stability in Afghanistan The country is making steady progress, but it's facing huge challenges in getting ready for free elections next June.
Salon.com September 24, 2001 Janelle Brown	Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer...
Salon.com April 23, 2002 Mark Scheffler	The real war on terrorism Robert Young Pelton, author of "The World's Most Dangerous Places," says the U.S. military has killed "thousands and thousands" of people in Afghanistan, al-Qaida is a myth and the WTC was brought down by a "Mickey Mouse" outfit...
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Ken Silverstein	Blasts from the past The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign...
Salon.com November 13, 2001 Suzy Hansen	"We need to get lucky" Michael Ignatieff, author of "Virtual War," talks about the politics of bombing Afghanistan, the viability of U.S. military strategy and why morality has nothing to do with either...
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Sean Kenny	Anger in the bazaars of Peshawar The Taliban has strong support in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. If there is civil war, it will start here...
Outside December 2003 Patrick Symmes	The Kabul Express In the sixties and seventies it was the hippie trail that brought foreigners to Afghanistan. Two decades of war and terror later, Kabul is a nonstop rave of C-130s, NGOs, soldiers, and spooky nation-builders. The freaks are back on Chicken Street -- where everything old is new again.
TIME Asia October 25, 2010 Aryn Baker	Live Aid Risks are an inherent part of doing aid work in a war zone. They should not be taken needlessly. But if an aversion to risk undermines the effectiveness of aid, the sacrifice of all those who have died will be in vain.
National Defense February 2014 Stephen A. Mackey	Time to Make Key Decisions in Afghanistan As the United States enters its second decade in Afghanistan, it is wise to examine the nation's interests and use them to inform the path ahead. Nations do not have permanent friends and allies, only permanent interests.
Salon.com November 22, 2001 David Talbot	"The North Vietnamese never bombed American cities" Progressive congressman Barney Frank talks about why he supports the war, opposes Bush's attack on civil liberties and thinks Clinton's military legacy is just fine...
Parameters Spring 2006 Ali A. Jalali	The Future of Afghanistan Afghanistan is again at a crossroads. One road leads to peace and prosperity; the other leads to the loss of all that has been achieved. Everything depends on the level of international commitment to help Afghanistan emerge from the dark shadows of its recent past.
Salon.com October 10, 2001 Asra Q. Nomani	At home with the Taliban While U.S. bombs dropped on his country, an Afghan official and his two wives welcomed me into their living room and talked of marriage, music and his memories of dining in the World Trade Center's starry restaurant...
Outside November 2005 Mark Jenkins	A Short Walk in the Wakhan Corridor Cross into this forgotten valley and you'll trade the insanity of modern Afghanistan for a far wilder frontier: a last-ditch, back-of-beyond outpost of breathtaking beauty, ancient strongholds, and 25 centuries of war.
Parameters Autumn 2005 Sean M. Maloney	Afghanistan Four Years On: An Assessment The situation in Afghanistan has progressed to the point where guarded optimism is justified. Unfortunately, the perception of the situation on the ground has become distorted through the prism of American partisan politics.
Fast Company April 1, 2011 April Rabkin	Transforming Sustainable Energy in Afghanistan In Afghanistan, living off the grid isn't a tree hugger's dream -- it's reality. but a renewable-power startup called Sustainable Energy Services Afghanistan is lighting up Afghans' lives, with help from the sun and the wind.
TIME Asia June 14, 2010 Tim McGirk	Armed Farces The U.S. has spent $26 billion building up the Afghan army. But it is still poorly trained and rife with internal rivalries. Will it ever be fit to fight?
Reason January 2002 Cathy Young	The Feminist West With Islamic fundamentalists making war on the West, the left's schizoid relationship to feminism and multiculturalism has come into full view...
Salon.com December 5, 2001 Janelle Brown	A chance to shine Afghan women delegates in Brussels prepare for a role in government, and react variously to a French belly dancer in a spangled bra...
Geotimes October 2003 John F. Shroder Jr.	Reconstructing Afghanistan: Nation Building or Nation Failure? As the Coalition forces begin reconstructing Iraq, Afghanistan continues to undergo its own rebuilding process. Whether the country continues to fail or rises to succeed may depend on U.S. efforts to help develop Afghanistan's vast natural resources.
Salon.com March 22, 2001 Carina Chocano	Save the children, or the Buddhas get it Afghanistan's roving ambassador tries to explain why the Taliban destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were considered the greatest remaining examples of third and fifth century Greco-Indian art in the world.
Salon.com December 6, 2001 Janelle Brown	Putting the world on notice Delegates to the Afghan Women's Summit, deftly maneuvering past their differences, issue an ambitious agenda for inclusion in their nation's future...
Salon.com November 14, 2001 Christopher Hitchens	Guess what, the bombing worked like a charm The antiwar hand-wringers kept warning us of its perils. But as the Taliban despots flee Afghan cities, and their citizens cheer, the air war's stunning efficacy is clear for all to see...
Smithsonian September 2007 Joshua Hammer	Undaunted First Rory Stewart walked the breadth of Afghanistan. Then he took up a real challenge: restoring traditional architecture in Kabul. When Stewart is not overseeing his foundation, he is on the road wooing skeptics.
Outside November 2009 Brian Mockenhaupt	Fire on the Mountain In the rugged eastern provinces of Afghanistan, American Troops are engaged in a kind of alpine warfare not seen for decades. Months can go by without combat, but the calm is often shattered when you least expect it.
National Defense February 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Special Operations Recreated in Afghanistan Battle Simulation The goal of the project, run by the Institute for Defense Analysis and DARPA, was to faithfully recreate the operations that liberated Mazar e-Sharif and drove Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters from northern Afghanistan.
Outside January 2010 Grayson Schaffer	Books: Eric Blehm Eric Blehm's third book, The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan details the U.S. Army's campaign to take the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.
Fast Company E.B. Boyd	Getting Out Of Afghanistan Leaving Afghanistan has become one of the most difficult operations the U.S. military has ever undertaken.
Salon.com December 14, 2001 Andrew O'Hehir	"Kandahar" A stark and beautiful film traces a Afghan woman's journey across a landscape we may never understand...
Adventure April 2004	Afghanistan's Shadowlands Robert Young Pelton's photographs of Afghanistan reveal the danger facing coalition forces and the hopes of a battered nation.
Reason March 2005 Charles Paul Freund	Artifact: Idol Hour Here is a pair of idols apparently acting out a forgotten pagan tale of Central Asia. Part of a collection housed in the Kabul Museum, the wooden statues were badly damaged in 2001 on the orders of the Taliban regime.
Geotimes October 2004 John F. Shroder Jr.	Afghanistan Redux: Better Late Than Never Efforts by USGS to study the resources of Afghanistan that are necessary to help boost its economy have been far from straightforward since September 11, but at last are now under way.
Salon.com November 30, 2001 Meera Atkinson	America the scapegoat An Australian woman who has made New York her home fires back at the smug U.S.-bashers in Europe and her native land...
Entrepreneur September 2006 Kristin Ohlson	The New World The opportunities in Afghanistan are once-in-a-lifetime.
Reason November 2004 Ben Fenwick	Meanwhile in Afghanistan The coming "warlord war" in America's other occupation.
Outside April 2006 Eric Hansen	Higher Education When american climber Greg Mortenson stumbled into the Pakistani village of Korphe after an unsuccessful attempt to summit k2, he had no idea that the three days he'd spend recuperating there would change his life forever.
ifeminists August 20, 2002 Wendy McElroy	The Silence Surrounding RAWA Questioning how the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan is using donated money.
Parameters Summer 2006 Shawn Brimley	Tentacles of Jihad: Targeting Transnational Support Networks As the five-year anniversary of the 11 September attacks approaches, America faces an enemy that is both a transnational organization and a growing ideological movement. As long as the war in Iraq continues, more recruits will join the disparate terror networks that feed off the conflict.