Welcome to DiscRep, your guide to the public discourse. I’m Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere), editor in chief of Arc Digital.

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1. Mass Afghan Government Surrenders as Taliban Fighters Overrun Three Key Cities in Sweeping Territorial Gains by Susannah George, Ezzatullah Mehrdad, Rachel Pannett, and Dan Lamothe in The Washington Post on 8/13/21

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