World Trade Center, Pentagon attacks

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  • The 9/11 lawsuits

    A small but growing group of people who lost loved ones in the terror attacks are giving up federal compensation to sue airlines, airport security firms and the FAA.
    By Kenneth Rapoza June 6, 2002

  • The FBI's dangerous drug-war obsession

    Before Sept. 11, the FBI was too focused on busting pot smokers to see the warning signs of a looming terrorist attack.
    By Arianna Huffington June 5, 2002

  • U.S. was warned that Moussaoui had close ties to al-Qaida, analyst says

    French authorities alerted the FBI in August that the "20th hijacker" had trained in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan, according to an intelligence expert -- but the U.S. did nothing.
    By Damien Cave May 23, 2002

  • What if?

    I used to ask myself what I could have done to save Eddie. Now I realize: I was asking the wrong person.
    By A.R. Torres May 17, 2002

  • See no evil

    The revelation that the White House was warned in August about a bin Laden hijacking plot -- and that Bush failed to disclose the warning -- shows an administration both incompetent and dishonest.
    By David Talbot May 16, 2002

  • Back in the saddle

    These days, because I am an airline pilot, people want to know if I'm scared. Of course I'm scared. I would be nervous flying with a pilot who wasn't.
    By P. Smith April 11, 2002

  • Why won't Tommy talk?

    Homeland security chief Tom Ridge continues to rebuff congressional efforts to have him testify about post-Sept. 11 America.
    By Arianna Huffington March 20, 2002

  • Wrath of a terror widow

    Yes, we are angry, often justifiably, but we are not ungrateful opportunists making a buck on the death of loved ones. That person is cartoonist Ted Rall.
    By A.R. Torres March 15, 2002

  • The tourists that ate Florida

    Before Sept. 11, residents loved to gripe at the out-of-state visitors clogging Orlando. But then they were gone.
    By Elizabeth Randall March 11, 2002

  • Ariel Sharon's most powerful weapon: George W. Bush

    How did a Texas oilman end up being a fervent supporter of the hard-line Israeli prime minister?
    By Aluf Benn March 8, 2002

  • Terrorists under the bed

    "Terrorism expert" Steven Emerson paints a terrifying picture of lethal Muslim fundamentalists among us in "American Jihad." But he doesn't know the difference between Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat.
    By Eric Boehlert March 5, 2002

  • Bushed!

    Osama bin Laden is still at large and Afghanistan is a mess -- so why is the president in a hurry to take his anti-terror campaign elsewhere?
    By David Talbot February 26, 2002

  • Loving a ghost

    I believed that if I could get through the trifecta of holidays after Sept. 11 without Eddie, I could get to the finish line of my grief. But I'd forgotten about Valentine's Day.
    By A.R. Torres February 14, 2002

  • Cashing in on the war on terrorism

    In exchange for its support since Sept. 11, Egypt has received billions in international aid and diminished scrutiny of its human rights abuses.
    By Issandr El Amrani February 13, 2002

  • The deadly children of Ghazni

    On the treacherous Kabul-Kandahar road, our correspondent falls into the hands of a gang of feral kids with Kalashnikovs.
    By Phillip Robertson February 4, 2002

  • The reluctant icon

    As a widow of Sept. 11 with a new baby, I am on America's patriotic payroll.
    By A.R. Torres January 25, 2002

  • The prime-time smearing of Sami Al-Arian

    By pandering to anti-Arab hysteria, NBC, Fox News, Media General and Clear Channel radio disgraced themselves -- and ruined an innocent professor's life.
    By Eric Boehlert January 19, 2002

  • What lies beneath

    It's been four months and New York looks normal, but it's not. Not for New Yorkers.
    By John Parsley January 16, 2002

  • I was a cowboy for the CIA

    A tough-guy field agent blasts wimpy pencil pushers and "politics" for keeping him from lassoing terrorist evildoers. He's right -- but you wouldn't want his kind in charge, either.
    By Laura Miller January 15, 2002

  • The inherent danger of flying

    Shoe bombs and suicidal 15-year-olds are heightening fears about airline security. But aside from creating more chaos at airports, what can we do?
    By P. Smith January 15, 2002

  • Florida witch hunt

    When a tenured professor loses his job for vocally backing the Palestinian cause, Jeb Bush applauds, Bill O'Reilly boos and academics say it's the worst threat to free speech since Sept. 11.
    By Bruce Shapiro January 8, 2002

  • The making of a hawk

    From Kuwait to Kosovo to Kabul, American firepower has been on the right side of history. The odyssey of a former dove.
    By David Talbot January 3, 2002

  • MTV wants you!

    In times of war, the counterculture halts at the water's edge!
    By Carina Chocano January 3, 2002

  • The media's favorite Arab expert

    Scholar Fouad Ajami has garnered more prime-time airplay than any other commentator on Arab-Muslim issues. But critics say he's far from a representative voice.
    By Eric Boehlert December 21, 2001

  • A birthday that will live in infamy

    If you were born on the 11th of September, you can make a wish and blow out the candles, but that silly old song will never sound the same.
    By Cary Tennis December 21, 2001

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