FP’s Dan De Luce talks to Sune Rasmussen and Andrew Quilty about reporting from Helmand Province, where the fighting has worsened and the Taliban is gaining ground.

The Final Front in the Afghan War

News & Politics

David Kenner is joined by Campbell MacDiarmid and Douglas Ollivant to discuss Campbell's recent interview with Kurdistan's President Masoud Barzani about the Sept 25, 2017 referendum on independence.

The Rocky Path Toward Kurdish Independence

Laura Heaton and Nichole Sobecki detail their reporting on Dr. Murray Watson and the impact his once thought-to-be lost work could have on the country decades later.

How to Tell a Story of Kidnapping and Climate Change in Somalia

Set discussions of science aside and talk about how to save the polar bears.

How to Convince People — and the U.S. President — to Care About Climate Change?

FP staffers talk about their reporting on the ground in South Sudan and Colombia and how war crimes, revolution, women, and Washington all played a role in those countries’ faltering peace processes.

Why Do Internationally Backed Peace Processes Fail?

Editors David Wertime and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian talk to three young Chinese about how studying stateside changed their views of the United States — and their home.

The Final Front in the Afghan War

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