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Could the U.S. ever have succeeded in Afghanistan? As the Taliban takes over, The Fletcher School at Tufts University professor Monica Duffy Toft argues that the U.S. mission there was never well defined and relied too heavily on military might.

A 2019 Tufts Now piece presenting strategies from Fletcher professors to help address the global immigration crisis is referenced in this article, which was written by rising A&S fourth-year student CE Malley.

This podcast presents the “Better Economics for a Better World” talk that Global Development and Environment Institute’s Tim Thornton gave at the May 18 Communities in Control conference.

Fletcher Professor Emeritus William Moomaw participates in this “On Point” discussion about the latest warning on climate change from the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change.

Tufts is one of the top 100 universities around the world in U.S. patents granted for 2020, according to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO).

Fletcher’s Josephine Wolff writes this piece about Russia’s efforts to create its own domestic internet system.

Fletcher’s Arik Burakovsky outlines why retiring German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy toward Russia will likely continue in the post-Merkel era.

Fletcher’s Bhaskar Chakravorti discusses the latest data from Fletcher’s Digital Intelligence Index (DII), which examines the digital competitiveness and economic resilience of 90 countries.

Fletcher professor emeritus Hurst Hannum discusses issues related to human rights in this wide-ranging interview. Hannum is the author of “Rescuing Human Rights: A Radically Moderate Approach.”