| Four months after the Biden Administration withdrew U.S. troops, more than twenty million Afghans are on the brink of famine.  Photograph by Oriane Zerah / ABACA Press / Reuters In a special report from Afghanistan, Jane Ferguson reveals the extent of the disaster left in the wake of the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from the country this past August: a surge of babies are being born prematurely in Kabul hospitals, with two or three children occupying I.C.U. beds meant for one; millions of people are facing famine; and, within months, nearly the entire population could be living in poverty. Meanwhile, Taliban officials refuse to publicly acknowledge the mounting crisis. The only way to avoid complete collapse, Ferguson writes, may be for the Biden Administration to heed the calls of N.G.O. workers and “release billions in frozen Afghan government assets to humanitarian organizations” to provide people direct relief. But, for now, the White House is moving slowly. Read the story here. | 
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