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A Taliban soldier the first anniversary of the US withdrawal from the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 31, 2022. (Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Commentary

Endangered Afghans Continue to Run for Their Lives—a Year after Biden’s Abrupt Withdrawal

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

Sep 7, 2022

Commentary

5 Min Read

An Apple Store at a usually bustling intersection in a popular shopping district after recent COVID-19 outbreaks on May 23, 2022, in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Commentary

The Chinese Communist Party’s Selectively Silent Partners

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Sep 2, 2022

Commentary

1 Min Read

Mourners react during a funeral for victims killed in a fire at a Coptic church in Giza on August 14, 2022. (Mahmoud Elkhwas/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Commentary

Egypt’s Burning Churches

Paul Marshall

Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Paul Marshall

Sep 2, 2022

Commentary

3 Min Read

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The IAEA Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhzhya (ISAMZ) arrives at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine on September 2, 2022. (IAEA Imagebank)

In the Media

Ukraine Still in Nuclear Peril

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Bryan Clark

Sep 2, 2022

In the Media

Demonstrators protest Chinese human rights abuses committed against Uyghurs at a rally in Istanbul, Turkey, on December 20, 2019. (Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images)

Commentary

China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Demands US Response

Nina Shea

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom

Nina Shea

Sep 1, 2022

Commentary

5 Min Read

In the Media

UN Finds Evidence of Torture in Xinjiang

Nury Turkel

Former Senior Fellow

Nury Turkel

Aug 31, 2022

In the Media

A memorial at Camp Lejeune on August 6, 2022, for the thirteen service members killed in the 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing. (Lance Cpl. Jessica J. Mazzamuto/USMC)

Commentary

Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Remains Catastrophe of American Weakness a Year Later

Michael R. Pompeo

Former Distinguished Fellow

Michael R. Pompeo

Aug 30, 2022

Commentary

4 Min Read

Salman Rushdie does a reading in New York City on April 15, 2016. (Al Pereira/Getty Images)

Commentary

Salman Rushdie and the Wider Effects of Blasphemy Accusations

Paul Marshall

Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Paul Marshall

Aug 30, 2022

Commentary

4 Min Read

In the Media

Religious Minorities Left Behind in Afghanistan

Nina Shea

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom

Nina Shea

Aug 30, 2022

In the Media

Evacuees await their departure at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 23, 2021. (Gunnery Sergeant Melissa Marnell/USMC)

Commentary

Mr. Blinken, Don’t Abandon Afghan Religious Minorities

Nina Shea

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom

Nina Shea

Aug 28, 2022

Commentary

5 Min Read

North Korean People's Army soldiers march on September 9, 2018, in Pyongyang, North Korea, as part of a parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the nation's founding. (Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

Commentary

The Peril of Forgetting the Threat That Pyongyang Poses

Patrick M. Cronin

Asia-Pacific Security Chair

Patrick M. Cronin

Aug 26, 2022

Commentary

2 Min Read

Egyptian university students gather on November 26, 2013, in Alexandria, Egypt, to protest the anti-demonstration law, which bans protests without prior police approval. (Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Commentary

America and the "Problem" of Islam