While Afghanistan’s new Taliban leadership has been preoccupied with near-term challenges, nonstate armed actors in the country have begun to assess the opportunities and limitations that come with a return to Taliban rule. Joshua White examines this new environment and its implications for the United States.
After decades of legislative inactivity, 2022 could be the year that New York finally grapples with its deeply entrenched and exclusionary zoning. Noah Kazis discusses the city’s long history of land use issues and outlines how new proposals seek to address them.
Will Russia launch a further military incursion into Ukraine by the end of March? What is the future of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline? In the latest edition of the Trans-Atlantic Scorecard, Brookings foreign policy experts answer these questions and more.
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