US-Pakistan Relations Under Biden, the Debate Over Section 230, and More

April 14, 2021

Yesterday, the Biden administration announced that the U.S. will pull all forces from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. Last month, Madiha Afzal and Michael O’Hanlon wrote about the potential ramifications of leaving too soon.

While Pakistan has made it clear that it wants a different relationship with America, redefining relations isn’t going as well as Islamabad hoped. Madiha Afzal explains the state of U.S.-Pakistan relations at the beginning of the Biden administration and why Washington will continue to view Pakistan through the prism of its neighbors, especially Afghanistan.

“The ongoing debate around Section 230 feels like a shouting match between strangers with earmuffs, each yelling in a different language hoping that the louder they yell the more easily they will be understood.” David Morar and Chris Riley write that reforming Section 230 effectively requires a mutual understanding of the harms posed by digital platforms and key challenges to implementing content-moderation regimes.

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial demographic in the United States and are becoming an increasingly important electorate. Both parties would do well to remember that as they seek to protect the Asian American and Pacific Islander community from hate, argues Caitlin Chin.

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