World Trade Center, Pentagon attacks

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  • Are you ready to dance on Osama's grave?

    The apparent architect of our worst nightmare is seen celebrating our losses. Will we do the same when he comes to a violent end?
    By Gawain Charlton-Perrin December 14, 2001

  • Was justice done?

    The 21-year-old Lebanese man who was held in solitary for six weeks for having a knife in his carry-on baggage will be allowed to leave the country -- but marked by a felony conviction that could scar the rest of his life.
    By Christopher Dreher December 14, 2001

  • World's Scariest Home Video

    "Osama: The Movie" was weird and chilling -- but not in the way the administration said.
    By Joan Walsh December 14, 2001

  • "Kandahar"

    A stark and beautiful film traces an Afghan woman's journey across a landscape we may never understand.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 14, 2001

  • The smoking gun?

    The Arab world gives a mixed reaction to the tape released by the U.S. government showing Osama bin Laden's connection to the Sept. 11 attacks.
    By Eric Boehlert December 14, 2001

  • A no-fly zone for terrorism

    By taking pilots out of the loop, can software prevent planes from being used as bombs?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski December 13, 2001

  • The nightmare

    Lebanese art student Salam El Zaatari has been held in solitary confinement for six weeks after airport security found an artist's knife in his carry-on case. His real crime: Being an Arab.
    By Christopher Dreher December 11, 2001

  • Sweatshop Stars and Stripes

    How Chinese communism is profiting from America's post-Sept. 11 love affair with the flag.
    By Matt Weiser December 11, 2001

  • Round up the Jews!

    If it's OK to racially profile Muslims and Arabs now, it should have been fine to single out Jews during the 1950s Communist-spy panic.
    By Ron Unz December 6, 2001

  • Hearts broken, hands full

    Men who became widowers and single fathers on Sept. 11 struggle with crushing grief and the relentless demands of running a family.
    By Lauren Sandler December 6, 2001

  • Baghdad nightmare

    They're accused of being war-crazed fanatics. But the elite group calling for Saddam's destruction is driven by a deep sense of mission -- one now shared by President Bush.
    By Laura Rozen December 5, 2001

  • America the scapegoat

    An Australian woman who has made New York her home fires back at the smug U.S.-bashers in Europe and her native land.
    By Meera Atkinson November 30, 2001

  • The mother of all terrorism battles

    A growing chorus is calling for Saddam Hussein's head. But experts disagree on whether a U.S. assault on Baghdad is worth the high risks.
    By Eric Boehlert November 29, 2001

  • No more hit and run

    Now that the United States has involved itself in Afghanistan, we have obligations to fulfill after the bombing stops.
    By Robert Scheer November 29, 2001

  • Identity crisis

    Decades after becoming an Italian-American Korean, I learn the truth and wonder: Why was I abandoned on the street, a note pinned to my shirt, at the age of 3?
    By Theresa Pinto Sherer November 29, 2001

  • Inside Afghanistan's refugee camps

    Near the Iranian border, thousands of Afghans seek refuge from the U.S. bombing.
    By Haleh Anvari November 29, 2001

  • Memo to airports: Hire Big Brother

    Rigorous preflight screening of air travelers is the best way to prevent future terrorist attacks.
    By Peter J. Ognibene November 27, 2001

  • Mission impossible?

    A flare-up of Middle East violence, including the assassination of a master Hamas terrorist, may render the peacemaking efforts of new U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni futile.
    By Flore de Préneuf November 27, 2001

  • The whole world in my hands

    I struggle to find peace in the midst of war -- by learning to knit.
    By Dayna Macy November 27, 2001

  • Are right-wing hate groups behind anthrax terror?

    Nobody knows, because the Justice Department isn't investigating violent militants on the right the way it's monitoring Muslims, critics say.
    By Anthony York November 22, 2001

  • Democracy first?

    We might rue the day we force our authoritarian allies to democratize, Robert Kaplan argues, once we see who replaces them.
    By Damien Cave November 22, 2001

  • The Taliban's deadly "refugees"

    Taliban guerrillas are moving into refugee camps inside Afghanistan -- safe havens where they can regroup, skim food provided by aid agencies, and recruit new troops.
    By Ben Barber November 22, 2001

  • "The North Vietnamese never bombed American cities"

    Progressive congressman Barney Frank talks about why he supports the war, opposes Bush's attack on civil liberties and thinks Clinton's military legacy is just fine.
    By David Talbot November 22, 2001

  • Off track

    Air disasters spotlight a need for better train service -- but American transportation policy has neglected railroads for decades.
    By Christopher Ott November 21, 2001

  • Not exactly fatherless

    Like a lot of men who were killed Sept. 11, my dad died young and left children. At 7, I made a secret plan to cope with his loss, and it worked.
    By Kevin J. Sweeney November 21, 2001

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