Teenage Girls vs. the Taliban: What Will Happen When U.S. Leaves? As the U.S. prepares to leave Afghanistan next year, women and girls fear a resurgent Taliban and their acid-throwing, rib-breaking ways. By Nina Burleigh
A Coal Miner’s Story, But No Working-Class Hero Li Yang’s Blind Shaft , (in Mandarin with English subtitles), based on the novel Shenmu by Liu Qingbang, opens his By Andrew Sarris
The Best Memorial: Genuine Freedom I can offer no advice about how best to observe this week’s anniversary. In our home the television is off, By Joe Conason