Some Uber drivers have to sleep in their cars to work in San Francisco. They can't afford to live near that city, on Guber's measly pay.

Iran will cancel some secondary aspects of the non-nuclear deal, because Europe has failed to protect it from the damage of US sanctions.

However, it will not cancel the core of the deal.

(satire) FAIR issued a statement Monday condemning the American press for only referring to … jihadist Hoda Muthana as "bride of [PISSI] soldier." [FAIR said that] "Ms. Muthana is an accomplished [PISSI] member in her own right, having joined one of the top terrorist organizations in the world at the age of only 20," …

I use the name "PISSI" to avoid defaming the Egyptian goddess or the English river by using their name to refer to a group of violent fanatics. And to reject the group's claim that its newly constructed ideology truly represents Islam.

The US is looking at ending its intervention in Afghanistan. Will it learn anything about whether to intervene elsewhere in the future?

I was in favor of the intervention in Afghanistan, at first. I thought victory would be easy and would bring Afghans peace, under a less oppressive rule than the Taliban's.

Things in Afghanistan went bad after the US invaded Iraq (for no valid reason at all). Perhaps Afghanistan would have turned out better if the US had focused on Afghanistan and not started an unnecessary and unjust war elsewhere. I thought so, but there is no way to be sure.

Whatever the US does now, it will not attain all the goals in Afghanistan we would wish for in our dreams. Or perhaps any of them. We should not criticize a plan to end the war merely for that.

I recommend Novel Without a Name, by Duong Thu Huong. It portrays a North Vietnamese officer who fights grimly for victory despite great suffering, the loss of his connection to life, and the aristocratic arrogance of Communist officials. At the end, as he participates in the capture of Saigon, he has lost everything. The book is informed by her experience serving as a singer and nurse for North Vietnamese troops fighting in South Vietnam. Vietnam does not publish her books nowadays.

The US exit from Vietnam was indeed abandonment without honor. However, honor alone is not enough justification for subjecting a country to unending bloody war. All in all, it was good that Nixon ended that war, even the way he did, even considering how corrupt and repressive the Vietnamese government is.

Afghans will, I think, be better off if we don't force continued war on them.

If other Afghans hate the Taliban's rule enough to keep fighting of their own initiative, I think we should support them. But it has to be their decision, not our imposition.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interviewed about her political strategies.

It is interesting that she supports Pelosi, saying that Pelosi could not feasibly do better given the existing forces in Congress than what she is doing. Whatever Ocasio-Cortez says is worth thinking about.