This week in the magazine, Ken Auletta writes about Saad Mohseni, Afghanistan’s first media mogul. Today, Auletta answered readers’ questions in a live chat. A transcript of their discussion follows.

After years of tuning into Tolo programming for hard-hitting news and the exploits of their favorite soap-opera character, Afghans are seeing a stripped-down and covered-up version of news and ...

A key maxim of news reporting is to tell, not become it. Nowhere is that tension more pronounced than for Afghanistan’s TOLO TV. After years of threatening the media, the Taliban has begun to openly ...