August 13: “Forget it, Joe. It’s Kabul.”

In which, the Taliban retake Afghanistan (almost), Cuomo resigns, the national debt is set to explode, and there’s this thing called climate change.

This is going to be a little shorter today because I am writing this with a head cold, which wreaks havoc on one’s focus. But, there were some significant developments that I wanted to be sure we touched on.

 “Forget it, Joe. It’s Kabul.”

In the early days of the Biden administration, President Biden committed to a full withdrawal of US ground forces from…