Trump and Xi’s ‘Everlasting Peace’ Moment Might Be More Theater Than Breakthrough: Let’s be real for a second — whenever someone says “everlasting peace” in politics, it’s usually code for “we’ll see how long this lasts.” Still, watching Donald Trump and Xi Jinping shake hands again after six years apart feels like déjà vu from a different lifetime. The photo op at the APEC summit in Busan had that odd mix of tension and pageantry — two men who both love the spotlight pretending they’re the best of friends again.
Behind the Barred Windows: How Afghanistan’s War on Drugs Became a Battle for Souls : If you walk through Kabul today, it might look cleaner than it did a few years ago. The parks once filled with men sprawled under the sun, the bridges littered with used needles and broken glass — they’re mostly empty now. Kids are playing again in Shahr-e-Naw Park. But behind the locked doors and barred windows of the city’s rehab centers, another battle rages — one far more complicated than it looks from the outside.
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