VIDEO: How did the US fail in Afghanistan? In-Depth Reporting on America’s Longest War
How did the US fail in Afghanistan? In-Depth Reporting on America’s Longest War
Matthieu Aikins
Winner of 2025 and 2022 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on U.S. support of brutal militias in Afghanistan and for civilian casualties from US airstrikes, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and the author of The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees, and an Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow and Southern New Hampshire University Fellow at New America.
Anand Gopal
Finalist for Pulitzer Prizes in 2025, 2022, and 2015 for reporting on civilian harm and conflict in Afghanistan and Syria, Assistant Research Professor, Future Security Initiative and Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Senior Fellow, New America, former Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at New America, author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes.
