Until quite recently, Annabelle Tometich wrote all her restaurant reviews under the pseudonym Jean Le Boeuf. She spoke with James about what that double life taught her about White privilege and her own racial identity.

Read or listen to Annabelle Tometich's op-ed here.

Robert Kagan warns that the United States faces its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War.

Read Kagan's essay here.

North Korea is testing new missiles. Victor Cha — a hardliner — encourages U.S. diplomacy in response. A foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush, Cha advocates for humanitarian assistance.

 Read Victor Cha's op-ed.

Mississippi has one of the lowest vaccination rates and highest death rates from covid-19. A palliative care doctor pleads with fellow Southerners to get vaccinated before it's too late.

Read Rick Boyte's op-ed.

Shabana Basij-Rasikh co-founded the only boarding school for girls in Afghanistan. Now, as the school year begins, she reflects on the power of educated women.

Read Shabana's latest op-ed.

Read Shabana's piece about educating Afghan girls.

In a special 9/11 anniversary edition, a counterterrorism expert argues that the threat of foreign terrorists attacking the United States at home has vastly diminished. Plus, a writer who lost her father on Sept. 11, 2001 shares her pain after two decades.

Read Michael Leiter's op-ed.

Read Kimberly Rex's op-ed.

The best-selling crime novelist sits on the board of the Innocence Project, and believes our country should be doing more to prevent wrongful convictions.

Read Grisham's op-ed.

Trump's former national security adviser says the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan presents an opportunity for the United States to confront Pakistan over its ties to the Taliban and nuclear stockpile.

Read John Bolton's op-ed.

Read Josh Rogin's interview with Pakistan's national security adviser.

Nasrin Nawa, an Afghan journalist, narrowly escaped the Taliban's takeover of Kabul. But leaving her home country also meant leaving her parents — and sister — to an uncertain future.

Read Nawa's op-ed here.

And here are four related op-eds:

• The mujahideen resistance to the Taliban begins now. But we need help.
• My Afghan news channel won’t stop its important work. We hope the world doesn't look away.
• The Taliban says it will respect women. But we Iranians have seen this movie before.
• The all-girls Afghan robotics team inspired the world. Now they're trapped, waiting to be rescued.