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NY Times: How Will the Taliban Rule? Here’s the Early Evidence. By Ashley Jackson - Ms. Jackson is the author of “Negotiating Survival: Civilian-Insurgent Relations in Afghanistan.” Currently based in Oslo, she lived in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2012 and from 2017 to 2019.

There is little indication that the Taliban are equipped to govern the cities — or the country as a whole — on their own. Afghanistan’s social complexity is more nuanced than a simple urban-rural divide...