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. Afghanistan’s Neighbors Watch Warily as Taliban Completes its Dramatic Takeover by Gerry Shih, Rebecca Tan, Niha Masih, and Karen DeYoung in The Washington Post on 8/16/21

The Taliban’s stunning takeover of Kabul on Sunday se…