Crooked Timber: Robert Kagan, Donald Trump and the liberal imagination.

Herlander-Walking: America still has troops in Afghanistan.

Unqualified Offerings": The war in Afghanistan's effect on heroin.

TomDispatch: The Pentagon's war on accountability.

For Memorial Day, from the Ernie Pyle archives, "The Death of Captain Waskow."

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