Reading archive 2021-04-14

Colton Underwood, former star of ‘The Bachelor,’ comes out as gay

Opinion: Congress must fix a fatal flaw in the D.C. statehood bill

Opinion: History will cast a shadow over Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan - "The downside is easy to imagine: a spiral of violence in which provincial capitals fall, one by one, leading to a deadly battle for Kabul — a fight in which the people who believed most in the United States’ intervention will be at greatest risk, and pleading for help. Closing our eyes and ears to that catastrophic situation — turning away from the desperate appeals, especially from the women of Afghanistan, who fear new oppression — will require cold hearts and strong stomachs."

Opinion: Biden takes the easy way out of Afghanistan. The likely result is disaster. - "The bargain struck by the Trump administration with the Taliban required it to break all ties with al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. According to U.N. and U.S. military officials, it has not done so. Nor has it been willing to negotiate seriously with the Afghan government about a peaceful settlement. It rejected a Biden administration proposal for a conference in Turkey to jump-start those talks, and it ridiculed U.S. proposals for a power-sharing arrangement with the government, as well as for new elections. The group’s leaders project the conviction that they will easily rout the government militarily once the United States leaves, and restore a harsh “Islamic emirate” such as the one they fashioned in the 1990s."

QAnon docuseries Q: Into the Storm has an answer on who is Q: One of the subjects of the HBO series may have slipped and revealed his role as Q. But will that matter to believers of the hoax?

Why changes to DC’s Future Land Use Map do not eliminate community input