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POLITICS

JEFF JACOBY
Children pass members of a Taliban unit in the Alingar District of Laghman Province in Afghanistan, March 13, 2020.
Biden’s blunder in Afghanistan
Is the president really prepared for America to walk away and let Kabul fall to the jihadists?

SCOT LEHIGH
George W. Bush arrives at the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden in January.
The Republican establishment strikes back
We’ve entered a new stage in the fight over the Republican Party.

EDITORIAL
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands inside a glass cell during a court hearing at the Babushkinsky district court in Moscow on Feb. 20, 2021.
Saving Navalny and the movement he spawned
Sanctioning the ‘right people’ will make Putin feel the pinch for violating international norms.

Andrea J. Campbell
Smoke rises around Boston police on May 31, 2020, as they use pepper spray during a Black Lives Matter protest.
Time and again, the Boston Police Department has proved it can’t be trusted to police itself
The department needs transparency and accountability. But that won’t happen in a vacuum. It requires hands-on leadership.

MARCELA GARCÍA
Migrants from Central American countries wait to be taken to a Border Patrol intake station after being smuggled across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas, on March 30.
A young migrant’s perilous journey and the cost of inaction
Four weeks after Maria’s daughter first disappeared into the bowels of the US immigration system, the two were finally reunited.

EDITORIAL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Isreal (center) attends a Memorial Day ceremony honoring Israel's fallen soldiers, in Jerusalem, April 14.
Biden must be blunt with Israel about the Iran deal
The United States can’t be drawn into a military conflict when a diplomatic solution is possible.

MARCELA GARCÍA
In an interview, Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu didn’t have concrete answers to some of the most controversial questions about BPS.
Can Michelle Wu fix Boston Public Schools?
While big thinking is necessary for change, the mayor’s job is loaded with immediate problems and crises.

Dean A. Strang and Nancy Gertner
Law enforcement officers cleared an area of demonstrators outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a protest on April 14 over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.
Supreme Court rulings on traffic stops reinforce structural racism in policing
The court was well aware of what it was doing.

EDITORIAL
A Ukrainian serviceman walks along a trench on the front line with Russia-backed separatists near Gorlivka, Donetsk region, on April 15.
Biden’s mission: Stand up for Ukraine
A new executive order on sanctions could be used to protest Russian troop build-up on the border.

Alex Beam
Then-Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris in her Converse sneakers at a drive-in campaign event at the Infinite Energy Center on Nov. 1 in Duluth, Georgia.
What’s afoot, politically?
It has not gone unnoticed that the Biden administration has ushered in a new era of women’s footwear.