Quick Hits (8.17.21)

Afghanistan falls to the Taliban and another earthquake rocks Haiti

Afghanistan has fallen to the Taliban

Less than a month after the United States began its scheduled departure of Afghanistan, the country has descended into chaos and is now almost entirely under the control of the Taliban, a radical Islamist group.

Twenty years ago, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States drove Taliban militants out of Kabul,…