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In a special breaking news edition of Inquirer LIVE: Worldview with Trudy Rubin, The Inquirer’s international affairs columnist answers your questions about what’s happening in Afghanistan as U.S. troops leave and the Taliban takes over. Having covered the Middle East for decades and visited Afghanistan and Pakistan multiple times, she is one of the Philadelphia area’s foremost experts on world affairs.

Trudy Rubin will explain how we got here, what comes next, and what it means for America’s role as a global leader of democracy, moderated by deputy opinion editor Erica Palan.

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