Today on the show, geographer Zoltán Grossman talks about the contemporary history of Afghanistan and provides context for the news cycle as U.S. troops withdraw.

Zoltán Grossman is a professor of geography and Native American and World Indigenous Peoples studies at The Evergreen State College. He is the author of several books, most recently Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands (University of Washington Press, 2017).

His latest piece for Counterpunch is “Five Ways the U.S. Created and Prolonged the Afghan Crisis.”