Tunisia's president, who has deactivated the parliament, says nothing about his long term plans for how to govern Tunisia.

* The U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should force a reckoning with a long history of military intervention.*

The disaster which Hurricane Ida is causing in Louisiana was preventable. If we had taken the climate defense action 20 years ago that climate scientists called for, we would not have had such a strong hurricane now.

(satire) *U.S. Airstrike Sends Tough Message To 4-Year-Old Afghans Not To Mess With America.*

Taliban murdered an Afghan folk musician. This is alarming because, when they ruled, they prohibited nonreligious music and enforced the prohibition harshly.

They say they won't impose that by force now. But that isn't much good unless the Taliban gets control over its zealot wing.