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New York City's Twin Towers.

New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity

Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day.
by Daniel Benjamin, Steven Simon via The Atlantic on May 20, 2024
The Fulton Fish Market.

When Your Childhood Belongs to Everyone: Growing Up in a Manhattan That Changed Forever on 9/11

Loft life above the Fulton Fish Market and the day that everything changed.
by Emma Dries via Literary Hub on February 22, 2024

Have We Learned Nothing?

The comparison between last weekend's Hamas attack and 9/11 is apt.
by David Klion via n+1 on October 10, 2023
Streetview of New York City.

How the 9/11 Attacks Sparked a Never-Ending Wave of Gentrification

The post-9/11 landscape witnessed crackdowns on New York City nightlife amidst efforts to increase tourism.
by Jesse Rifkin via Literary Hub on July 13, 2023
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9/11 at 20

How do Americans remember 9/11 personally, locally in New York, and nationally in museums, memorials, and foreign policy?
Photograph of firefighters raising an American flag in the rubble of 9/11.

The Real Story Behind This Iconic 9/11 Photo

How does an image become “iconic?” And when it does, will its meaning change?
via The Bigger Picture on September 6, 2022
CNN studio with monitor in the foreground and anchor at desk in the background.

From TV News Tickers to Homeland: The Ways TV Was Affected By 9/11

There is a long list of ways America was transformed by the terrorist attacks. But the question of how TV itself was changed is more complicated.
by Eric Deggans via NPR on September 10, 2021
FDNY firefighters in WTC wreckage

What Gilles Peress Saw on 9/11

The Magnum photographer looks back on capturing an “inconceivable event.”
by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on September 9, 2021

'Get Out Now' – Inside the White House on 9/11, According to the Staffers Who Were There

A top White House aide recounts her experiences that day.
by Anita McBride via The Conversation on September 2, 2021
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9/11 Heroes: Surviving the Biggest Attack on U.S. Soil

First responders who survived 9/11 don’t want the day to be forgotten.
via Retro Report on August 25, 2021
National September 11 Memorial & Museum

We Need to Reform the September 11 Museum

Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning.
by Todd Fine, Asad Dandia via Hyperallergic on August 1, 2021
The wreckage of the Twin Towers on 11th September 2001.

The Legacy of 9/11

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.
by Stephen Wertheim via Prospect Magazine on July 14, 2021
A flag bearing the likeness of the former World Trade Center destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is flown at half-staff during a ceremony to place a time capsule and plaque outside the Oculus transit station to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on April 30 in New York.
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Twenty Years After 9/11, its Memorialization Remains Contested

Should 9/11 remembrances include the global war on terror?
by John Bodnar via Made By History on May 28, 2021
Illustration of 9/11 inside outline of girl

The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.
by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2020

An Oral History of The Onion’s 9/11 Issue

Immediately after 9/11, humorists struggled with what many called ‘the death of irony.’ Then ‘The Onion’ returned and showed everyone the way
by Maria Schneider, Brian VanHooker, Robert Siegel, Todd Hanson, Mike Loew, Chad Nackers, Carol Kolb, Chris Karwowski, Tim Harrod, Mike Sacks, Nat Towsen, Joe Garden, Jim Romenesko via MEL on June 29, 2020

‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’

What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House and the fighter pilots prepared to ram the plane's cockpit.
by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2019

9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

"I get teary-eyed with my students."
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 10, 2019

The Falling Man

Since 9/11 the story behind the Falling Man, and the search for him, is our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
by Tom Junod via Esquire on September 9, 2017

‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’

Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by people on board.
by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on September 9, 2016
Cross-shaped steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center

Disasters and the Politics of Memory

The challenges involved in constructing the 9-11 Museum in New York City within the context of other man-made disasters.
by Kevin Rozario via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on September 1, 2014
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

The Mastermind

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the making of 9/11.
by Terry McDermott via The New Yorker on September 6, 2010

The Good War on Terror

To fully understand what has gone wrong since 9/11, it is necessary to rewind the tape to that moment just before.
by Chris Hayes via In These Times on September 8, 2006
Kitchen workers moving a paper-mache Statue of Liberty in 2009 Kabul, Afghanistan.

Pervasive Impunity

How four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.
by Cora Currier via New York Review of Books on October 16, 2025
John McCain stands in a crowd shaking hands in a Ukrainian city.

How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.
by Michael A. Reynolds via Compact on August 15, 2025
President George W. Bush delivering the first State of the Union speech after the 9/11 attacks.

The Legacy of the ‘Axis of Evil’

One speech permanently influenced American diplomacy—and not for the better.
by Kourosh Ziabari via The American Conservative on December 20, 2024
A black and white photo of an American soldier on patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, 2005.

God’s Directive

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims.
by Rozina Ali via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2024
View from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001.

Grave New World

Richard Beck charts how 9/11 shapes the way we live now.
by David Klion via Bookforum on October 29, 2024
Twin towers missing; twin towers visible with surroundings missing.

How the War on Terror Warped the American Left

A new book on how 9/11 altered the national psyche also demonstrates how it stunted progressive politics.
by Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic on September 10, 2024
Reflections in a store window of people watching the 9/11 attack on television.

The World That September 11 Made

Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.
by Ed Burmila via The New Republic on September 9, 2024
Joe Biden and George W. Bush.

Biden Is Repeating Bush’s Post-9/11 Playbook. It’s Not Working.

Like his predecessor, the president is decrying anti-Arab and Muslim hatred while helping fuel it. People are refusing to let him get away with this hypocrisy.
by Saliha Bayrak via The Nation on February 23, 2024
Gloved hand holding COVID-19-shaped dandelion

Did the Year 2020 Change Us Forever?

The COVID-19 pandemic affected us in millions of ways. But it evades the meanings we want it to bear.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on February 19, 2024
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