Christopher Dickey

International news and U.S. news are perilously intertwined in ways they never have been before, in a constant rush of events that The Daily Beast covers around the clock.

Revolutionary France had no more heroic or humane commander than Gen. Alex Dumas. The Germans had his statue torn down, but the French still haven’t come to terms with his story.

Russia has been courting the Taliban at least since 2014 with money and weapons, ostensibly to fight ISIS, certainly to undermine the American effort in Afghanistan.

The real target of Taliban revelations about a plan to kill Amb. Khalilzad is the Afghan government's intelligence service. The U.S. is investigating the threat—cautiously.

Peter Turnley has been out on the streets of New York City almost every day since the lockdown began, and among his photos are images likely to become icons of this plague year.