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• United States History – American Woman

Laura Welch Bush, America's First Lady, became a champion of women's rights in Afghanistan, a war-torn country. She forced the international community to pay attention to the female genocide in Afghanistan. In 2005, she journeyed to Kabul for talks with President Hamid Harzai and other Afghan officials....

• Jon Lee Anderson: Is it time to leave Afghanistan?

The first time the United States tried to kill Osama bin Laden was in the summer of 1998, in Khost, Afghanistan. A dusty, mountainous region in the southeast of the country, Khost was a hospitable place for radicals; the Taliban controlled the area, and Pakistan, which frequently supported Islamists, was . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Amy Davidson: What we still don’t know about the war in Afghanistan.

Last September, an assessment of the war in Afghanistan, by the American commander General Stanley McChrystal, was leaked to the press. The timing was not incidental. President Obama was trying to make up his mind about what kind of war he wanted to wage, for how long, and with how . . ....

• Respiratory Disorder Seen in Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans

Breathing problems in some soldiers returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan may be signs of a respiratory disorder rarely seen in healthy young adults, a study shows....

• Ken Auletta: Saad Mohseni, Afghanistan’s first media mogul.

Every day in Kabul, politicians and journalists in search of information come to a barricaded dead-end street in the Wazir Akbar Khan district to see Saad Mohseni, the chairman of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s preëminent media company. At the last house on the right, burly men . . ....

• Dexter Filkins: Endgame

In the ten years since American soldiers first landed in Afghanistan, their official purpose has oscillated between building and destroying. The Americans initially went in to defeat Al Qaeda, whose soldiers had attacked the United States, and to disperse the Taliban clerics who had given the terrorist group a home . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: The Fifth War

In the sixty-four years since V-J Day, the United States has fought five wars big enough to be styled “major.” Two of these, Vietnam (1962-75, by the most common reckoning) and Iraq (2003-11, with any luck), were conceived in sin. Their beginnings were fatally compromised by . . ....

• Steve Coll: Is the Obama Administration talking to the Taliban?

On August 22, 1998, Mullah Omar, the emir of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, made a cold call to the State Department. The United States had just lobbed cruise missiles at Al Qaeda camps in his nation. Omar got a mid-level diplomat on the line and spoke calmly. He suggested that . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Behind Obama’s clean-energy strategy.

The day after President Obama delivered his second State of the Union address last week, dozens of Web sites turned it into a “word cloud,” graphically showing the relative frequency with which particular words appeared. One such cloud-seeding Web site was none other than www.whitehouse.gov, where, as . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Behind Obama’s clean-energy strategy.

The day after President Obama delivered his second State of the Union address last week, dozens of Web sites turned it into a “word cloud,” graphically showing the relative frequency with which particular words appeared. One such cloud-seeding Web site was none other than www.whitehouse.gov, where, as . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Ron Suskind’s “Confidence Men” and Barack Obama’s White House.

If the United States is one big book club, and sometimes it feels that way, then the White House must have been hoping that this would be the week when everyone was talking about “The Rogue,” Joe McGinniss’s much ballyhooed takedown of his erstwhile Alaska neighbor . . ....

• Afghan enemies using iPhone as a weapon

Australian Department of Defense chief technology officer Matt Yannopoilos today said defenses were being beaten in Afghanistan by enemies accessing information quickly via iPhones....

• Rolf Potts: The U.S. military’s reading lists.

When allegations surfaced that details in Greg Mortenson’s memoir “Three Cups of Tea” had been fabricated, some reports noted that the book, a best-seller about doing good works in Central Asia, is “required reading” for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. These reports were referring . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Presidential debates, Citizens United, and the politics of media.

8220;We’ve got to stop the debates! Enough with the debates!” That was John McCain’s plea on “Meet the Press” the Sunday before his favored candidate (Mitt Romney) pulped his unfavored one (Newt Gingrich) like an overripe orange in the Florida Republican primary . . ....

• Petrol Scooter – A Fuel Efficient Alternative to a Car

One of the best options for transportation is the petrol scooter. It can get through massive traffic jams and saves on fuel. They have never quite caught on in the United States but are very popular around the globe but have never really taken off in the United States....

• Dog DNA Test Kit Helps Determine a Mixed Breed

Doolittle's Pet Products reports Of the 74 million dogs that are owned in the United States, 50 percent of them are mix-breeds. But now, thanks to Wisdom Panel MX, a brand-new dog DNA test kit, the mystery is taken out of the mutt. You can now figure out which breeds are in your dog....

• Driver Training and Driving Schools in the United States

Driver Education in the United States has gone through several transitions in the United States over the last 80 years. Lately, the emergence of a new type of driving school is emerging which has the potential to have a positive impact on the collision rates of teen drivers....

• Jerome Groopman: Could the conventional wisdom on children and allergies be wrong?

Jill Mindlin prides herself on being a good parent. An attorney who lives on the North Shore of Long Island, she read books about how to raise healthy and happy children and dutifully followed their advice. She bought the car seat with the highest safety rating and covered her son . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Jerome Groopman: Could the conventional wisdom on children and allergies be wrong?

Jill Mindlin prides herself on being a good parent. An attorney who lives on the North Shore of Long Island, she read books about how to raise healthy and happy children and dutifully followed their advice. She bought the car seat with the highest safety rating and covered her son . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Nicholas Schmidle: What happened that night in Abbottabad.

Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEAL</small . . ....

• Exporting Automobiles From the United States

The procedure of exporting an automobile from the United States is not a complicated process; however, there are requirements that must be fulfilled for car export. In order to export cars from the United States to other countries, the exporter must be able to provide documentation that proves the ownership of the vehicle. In most cases, this will be the certificate of title of the vehicle....

• Sarah Stillman: For foreign workers on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, war can be hell.

It was lunchtime in Suva, Fiji, a slow day at the end of the tourist season in September of 2007, when four men appeared in the doorway of the Rever Beauty Salon, where Vinnie Tuivaga worked as a hair stylist. The men wore polished shoes and bright Hawaiian shirts, and . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. BLOOD AND GIFTS Bartlett Sher directs a new play by J. T. Rogers, about a C.I.A. agent who fights against the Soviets in Afghanistan during the war in . . ....

• Goings on About Town: The Theatre

PageBreak -->OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. BLOOD AND GIFTS Bartlett Sher directs a new play by J. T. Rogers, about a C.I.A. agent who fights against the Soviets in Afghanistan during the war in . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Nobel Surprise

If President Obama really had to get a gift postmarked Scandinavia this month, he would probably, on the whole, have preferred the Olympics. At least at the Olympics the judges wait till after the race to give you the gold medal. They don’t force it on you while . . ....

• Steve Coll: Bob Woodward on Obama and Afghanistan.

Since September 11, 2001, Bob Woodward, while writing five books about wartime White House decision-making, has acted not only as an investigative reporter but also as a real-time archivist, oral historian, market-maker in Washington reputations, and inspector general of America’s civil-military relations, on behalf . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Lies

After the tea-partying, town-meeting-disrupting, pistol-packing mensis horribilis of August, more than a few commentators complained, as one of them put it, that “Obama should have seen it coming.” No one doubted that the current attempt to overhaul America’s uniquely wasteful and unjust . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama and the battle of the amendments.

There is the current crop of Ohio Republicans, and then there are those who art in Heaven. A specimen of the former, ultimate destination unknown, is Speaker of the House John Boehner, a perpetrator (and, arguably, a victim) of the terrifying debt-limit arson that his party, on fire with . . ....