This volume focuses on three topics related to the Taliban: the power of the Taliban, the relationship between the Taliban and Afghanistan’s drug trade, and how the United States should deal with the Taliban. Each section provides at least four viewpoints on the topic, as well as questions to consider as you read each essay. After each essay restates the main argument made and poses questions to help the reader evaluate the argument asks how the next author would respond to the argument, what other facts the reader would need in order to  This book takes a complex topic and makes it comprehensible even if it is a little simplistic in scope. There are photographs, maps, charts, and political cartoons that prevent the book from being too text-dense. Included at the end of the book are basic facts about the Taliban and organizations to contact and sources for more information.