How did the Taliban manage to defeat the most powerful army in the world? One word: corruption. It is not new, it has already happened in...

When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is drie...

  Afghanistan: a ragged blot of land more or less at the center of the mass of Eurasia and Africa. Over a couple of centuries, it repelled i...