Harvest

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — For years, opium has been the monster too big to slay. One Afghan government after another has…

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In the summer of 2020, out of the blue, my father told me of a friend of his who, after…

ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — Abdul Hamid’s pomegranate trees were scarred from bullets and shrapnel. The river was low and the land…

VALDOBBIADENE, ITALY — Small pickup trucks carrying mounds of green grapes wound through Prosecco Road. Workers harvesting in the terraced…