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Jeffrey Goldberg examines the real meaning of that day. It's not about foreign policy or intelligence failures; it's about the unprovoked murder of 3,000 people.
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Despite the warnings of some GOP presidential candidates, we've got nothing to fear but fear itself -- and our own propensity for overreaction
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The day the Twin Towers crumbled, more than 25,000 kids inhaled toxic substances. Ten years later, many of them are suffering from health problems that still haven't gone away.
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Though the September 11 attacks were launched from Afghanistan and against the U.S., Pakistan and its 177 million people have endured much of the worst in the 10 years since
An unintentional double exposure miraculously places the before and after of the tragedy in the same frame
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Politicians shy away from making public speeches on 9/11, fearing that they will politicize the mourners. But maybe our leaders should, in the style of Lincoln, provide a new narrative for the tragedy.
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The Atlantic ran an essay in early 2005 imagining what September 11, 2011, would look like. Now that we're here, how did we do?
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Dwelling on our own suffering makes us blind to the pain of others
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A pitcher and a grieving mother remember the city's first pro sporting event after the attacks
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Why are we so apt to see the terrorist group or its offshoots where they don't really exist?
In 1974, just a year after the Twin Towers were completed, French tightrope artist Philip Petit set out to achieve his ultimate goal: to string and walk a wire between the Towers. The original CBS News broadcast documents the unimaginable feat.
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Over the past 10 years, the basic features of how we live, communicate, and get our information have changed dramatically
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In The Weekly Standard, writer Charlotte Allen skewers American universities for failing to commemorate the terrorist attacks with sufficient moralizing and self-righteousness
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At a makeshift memorial near the crash site, Americans have paid tribute with a unique collection of religious and patriotic memorabilia
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After the attacks, journalists were swept up in the national feelings of fear and outrage -- and failed to do their job
The real rise in terrorism has come in the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan wars we helped spark -- not in the West
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