September 11th

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  • "The Guys"

    Sigourney Weaver shines as a writer who helps a New York fire captain, played by Anthony LaPaglia, find the words to remember the men he lost on Sept. 11.
    By Stephanie Zacharek April 4, 2003

  • Nightmare scenarios

    Would a dirty bomb make Washington uninhabitable? Would another terror offensive make civil liberties obsolete? The final installment from "After."
    By Steven Brill April 2, 2003

  • Protecting America

    In the second selection from "After," Tom Ridge is drafted for homeland security and Anthony Romero maneuvers the ACLU into the post 9/11-era.
    By Steven Brill April 1, 2003

  • 9/12

    In an excerpt from a riveting new book about post-9/11 America, GOP strongman Tom DeLay and corporate lobbyists toast their legislative clout, while John Ashcroft's men get rough with Muslim immigrants.
    By Steven Brill March 31, 2003

  • "Shut your mouth"

    As radio giants censor antiwar musicians, TV networks bully pro-peace actors, and Attorney General John Ashcroft prepares a new assault on civil liberties, a climate of intimidation creeps over America.
    By Tim Grieve March 25, 2003

  • Sleepwalking toward Baghdad

    As the sand runs out on peace, America drifts alone toward a strange and unjustified war.
    By Gary Kamiya March 10, 2003

  • Big Oil fears war, too

    While "No blood for oil!" echoes in the streets, analysts say oil companies actually dread war in Iraq.
    By Dan Baum February 25, 2003

  • The best movie you haven't seen

    Suffused with a sense of 9/11 loss, Spike Lee's overlooked "25th Hour" is the most emotionally wrenching film of the year.
    By Charles Taylor February 19, 2003

  • A haunting silence

    While the White House risks the horrors of war, the Senate is paralyzed, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 12.
    February 13, 2003

  • Ground zero: Where the buffalo roam?

    A new film from "Slacker" director Richard Linklater offers a daring, crackpot vision for the World Trade Center memorial: A 16-acre park full of free-roaming bison.
    By Su Ciampa January 21, 2003

  • White House economic policy: Confusion

    Stephen Friedman was set to be the next chair of Bush's National Economic Council. Then he wasn't. Then he was again. Clearly, the man has enemies.
    By Anthony York December 11, 2002

  • Grounded

    A federal agency confirms that it maintains an air-travel blacklist of 1,000 people. Peace activists and civil libertarians fear they're on it.
    By Dave Lindorff November 15, 2002

  • Sept. 11 and wars of the world

    Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them.
    By William M. Arkin October 11, 2002

  • Bush rolls out his new, improved get-Saddam line

    After weeks of fumbling and GOP infighting, the president takes his case to the U.N.
    By Eric Boehlert September 12, 2002

  • "The Cell"

    Listen to an excerpt from the new book by ABC newscaster John Miller and reporters Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell on why the FBI and CIA failed to stop the 9/11 attacks.
    By John Miller September 12, 2002

  • Miss Liberty strikes back

    The courts and even some of his allies have turned against John Ashcroft and his attack on civil rights -- and he has only his own bungling and overreaching to blame.
    By Bruce Shapiro September 11, 2002

  • The White House as target

    On Sept. 10, 2001, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue seemed a small and uneasy place, vulnerable to a gathering storm.
    By Dinty W. Moore September 10, 2002

  • The big NEA-Sept. 11 lie

    How the conservative Washington Times helped create a myth about the teachers' union and Sept. 11 that has become conventional wisdom.
    By Brendan Nyhan September 5, 2002

  • Arab-Americans, one year later

    A new PBS documentary delicately explores the lives of "100 percent American, 100 percent Arab" citizens, who find themselves permanent outsiders in a season of war.
    By Carina Chocano September 4, 2002

  • Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living in Utah

    As the anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches, terror-related urban legends are running rampant. Luckily, Snopes.com is on the case.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski September 3, 2002

  • Teacher or terrorist?

    A Florida university is stepping up efforts to sack faculty member Sami Al-Arian, accusing him of terrorist ties. Critics say the charges are specious -- and a threat to academic freedom.
    By Eric Boehlert August 22, 2002

  • Conspiracy Theory

    An ominous cosmic force is working for the Harlem Little League team. Or against it. But definitely against the Florida State University football team.
    By Keith Olbermann August 21, 2002

  • Too hot to handle

    The New York Fire Department suffered a communications breakdown on Sept. 11, and hundreds of firefighters died. Why are so many journalists ignoring the story?
    By Eric Boehlert August 20, 2002

  • The fading war on drugs

    How Osama bin Laden caused the decline of DARE, the anti-drug program that brought you "Just Say No."
    By Dan McGraw August 19, 2002

  • The right man for the job

    His county -- and his country -- cried out for him. And Bruce Springsteen came through.
    By Joyce Millman August 6, 2002
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