Afghanistan En Vogue

Vogue magazine. It’s not the first place you look to get your seasoned foreign policy opinions. But as articles like “5 Direct Ways to Help in Afghanistan” and “What Will Happen to the Women and Girls of Afghanistan Now?” pepper its pages after the U.S.’s upstart withdrawal from 20 years of failed attempts at democracy, the fashion industry has taken up a loud voice in the Afghanistan conversation.

Because caring about the women in Afghanistan is fashionable. 

Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us that the beauty industry and its giants have a...