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The majority of women in the United States are single, and they’re becoming a big force in our economy. Single women now make up a significant share of the job market, homeowners and college graduates. But we’ll get into why that doesn’t necessarily amount to a boon for women’s wealth and wages. Also, business owners are coming clean about price-raising strategies, dubbed “excuseflation.” Plus, how mending your clothes became a hot fashion trend.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “Crestfallen, veterans demand accountability for Afghan exit’s failures” from The Washington Post

• • “Washington Suffers as Federal Employees Work From Home” from Bloomberg

• • “Single women take an outsize role in the workforce — and the economy” from The Washington Post

• • “How ‘Excuseflation’ Is Keeping Prices — and Corporate Profits — High” from Bloomberg

• • “Elon Musk Is Planning a Texas Utopia — His Own Town” from The Wall Street Journal

• • “Does Anyone Mend Clothes Anymore?” from Southern Living

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President Biden shows the world that his empathy is an act with a blame-shifting, nasty, vindictive and bloviating speech championing his Afghanistan withdrawal — and the fallout will be toxic. 

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On Monday night, after a 20-year war that claimed 170,000 lives, cost over $2 trillion and did not defeat the Taliban, the United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

As the last of the American forces left under the cover of darkness, there was celebratory gunfire from the Taliban. The moment of exit, a day earlier than expected, was both historic and anticlimactic.

We explore what happened in the last few hours and days of the American occupation, and look at what it leaves behind. 

Guest: Eric Schmitt, a senior writer covering terrorism and national security for The New York Times. 

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Background reading: 

• The last American flight from Afghanistan left behind a host of unfulfilled promises and anxious questions about the country’s fate.

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ISIS terrorists murder 13 American servicemembers and kill nearly 100 other people; the Biden administration reportedly handed a list of Americans, green card holders, and Afghan allies to the Taliban; and Joe Biden is not with us.

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Join this roundtable discussion featuring Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and Daily Wire god-king Jeremy Boreing on the latest tragic developments coming out of Afghanistan. 

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President Biden grapples with criticism from Republicans like Donald Trump, journalists, pundits, and fellow Democrats over the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. Then, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy talks with Jon Favreau about the Administration’s announcement that Americans will be offered Covid-19 booster shots starting in late September. 

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The last few days in Afghanistan have been chaotic as the Taliban retake control of the country.

The debacle can be traced to a number of assumptions that guided the execution of the U.S. withdrawal from the country after two decades of war.

How could those assumptions have proved so wrong, so quickly?

Guest: David E. Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times.

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Background reading: 

• An Afghan military that did not believe in itself and a U.S. effort that President Biden, and most Americans, no longer believed in brought an ignoble end to the United States’ longest war.
• A takeover of the whole of Afghanistan was all but absolute as the government collapsed and the U.S. rushed through a frenzied evacuation.

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Lululemon comes under fire for lack of diversity despite its woke virtue signaling; Trump sues big tech; and Joe Biden hands Afghanistan over to the Taliban.

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