Post 911

Racial and Religious Profiling: What Will Be the Toll on Our Children?

Deepa Iyer | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Racial Profiling, Sikhs, Post-9/11 America, Saalt, Muslims New York, American Muslims, South Asian Americans, Post 9/11, New York Muslims, Hijab, South Asians New York, Nypd Scandals, New York News
Deepa Iyer

Our collective psyche has been shaped by the experiences of living in post-9/11 America, and future generations will be forced to wrangle with questions of identity, history, shame and our place in America.

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NYPD Surveillance Shows No Good Deed Goes Unpunished For American Muslims

Sahar Aziz | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Community Outreach, Counterterrorism, Nypd Muslims, Muslim Americans, Surveillance, Post 9/11, Spying, Nypd Spying, Nypd Spying on Mosques, FBI Surveillance, Nypd, Religion News
Sahar Aziz

So long as the police engage in systemic racial profiling and attendant criminal punishments, community outreach is futile, as well as disingenuous.

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The Squandered Superpower: How America Has Stunted Imagination

Cody Pomeranz | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Google, Creativity, Apple, Human Brain, Thinking Outside of the Box, Post 9/11, Innovation, Imagination, 9/11 Attacks, Ways of Thinking, College News
Cody Pomeranz

Think of a number between 1 and 10. Got it? Now, how many of you reading this thought of the number pi? Or how about e? The brain is certainly capable of giving those kinds of answers. But that is not the way in which many of us have been taught to think.

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In Post-9/11 World, Muslims Find Home, Of Sorts, At Catholic Church

Sammamish, WA Patch | Robert Baldino | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: 9/11 Reflection, September 11 Anniversary, Post-9/11, Inter-Religious Dialogue, Interfaith Engagement, Muslim-Catholic Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Religious Tolerance, Inter-Religious Engagement, Religion News

Christianity and Islam have a long and contentious history with each other, one that literally spans a thousand years and several wars. Since the terr...

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The Loss Of An Authentic Expression Of Human Spirit In The Post-9/11 World

Michael W. Waters | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Southern Methodist University, Handwriting, September 11 Anniversary, Human Experience, Decade After 9/11 - Religion, Digital Self Expression, Coping With Grief, 9/11 Reflection, Dealing With Grief, 9/11, Handwritten Expression, Post-9/11, Self Expression in 2011, 9/11 Grief, Religion News
Michael W. Waters

Where do we see the authentic human spirit captured in handwritten glory today? In love letters? In loving notes placed in lunchboxes? Or do we consider our humanity best expressed in tweets?

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The Catharsis of Song

Susanne Mentzer | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: 9/11, Classical Music, New York Philharmonic, Post 9/11, New York Firefighters, September 11 Anniversary, Decade After 9/11 - Remembering, September 11, Arts News
Susanne Mentzer

About ten days after 9/11/01, I was asked to sing on the opening subscription concerts at the New York Philharmonic. After the performance I wandered out alone through the Lincoln Center plaza and wondered why I was there at that moment.

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Poll: N.Y. May Be More Spiritual, But Not Because Of 9/11

Posted 10.29.2011

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By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) New York-area residents are more spiritually active since 9/11, a new survey shows, but the uptick ...

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Small Town's High School Graduates Went To War After 9/11

AP | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: High School Graduates Military, Montana Schools, Guidance Counselors, Military Service, Superior Montana, High School Graduates, Post-9/11, Military Recruits, Military Recruiting, Armed Services, September 11 Anniversary, Military Doctors, Superior High School, Education News

SUPERIOR, Mont. — Longtime guidance counselor Dan Lucier studies hallway-mounted photos of past graduating classes at Superior High School, poin...

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Ken Kesey Rides Again In Magic Trip

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 10.06.2011

Read More: Oscar, Duke, Alan Ginsberg, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Day After Superman Died, David Kahne, Tie Dye, Angelina Jolie, Alex Gibney, The World's Fair, Cold War, Easy Rider, Lsd, Allen Ginsberg, Twist and Shout, Ravi Coltrane, On the Road, The Beatles, Archival Verite, Emmy, Stanley Tucci, John Coltrane, Larry McMurtry, Thomas Wolfe, Love Potion Number 9, Howl, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo?S Nest, Jerry Garcia, JFK Assassination, Jack Kerouac, Allison Ellwood, The Merry Pranksters, Hair, Greensleeves, Mad Men, Timothy Leary, The Sixties, Ellington, Neal Cassady, Post 9/11, Entertainment News
Cynthia Ellis

Directors Alex Gibney and Allison Ellwood have resurrected, cinematically, the pivotal moment when our country went from Mad Men to HAIR.

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Bin Laden's Death: Do I Fit Into the Celebration?

Gissou Nia | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Dead, Muslim in America, Muslim Discrimination, American Muslims, Discrimination, Iran, Post 9/11, International Justice, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Gissou Nia

I spent the years following 9/11 reacting to the discrimination of those around me. Bin Laden's death is at least, for now, some comfort that my dark decade -- and that of my nation -- has finally come to a close.

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Bin Laden's Death: Do I Fit Into the Celebration?

Gissou Nia | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Iran, Muslim in America, International Justice, Osama Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Post 9/11, Discrimination, Muslim Discrimination, American Muslims, World News
Gissou Nia

I spent the years following 9/11 reacting to the discrimination of those around me. Bin Laden's death is at least, for now, some comfort that my dark decade -- and that of my nation -- has finally come to a close.

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The End of an Era: Nation-Building at Home After Bin Laden's Death

Daniel Marans | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care, Economy, Budget, Osama Bin Laden, 9/11, Bin Laden, Post 9/11, Terrorism, Iraq, September 11th, Nation-Building, Politics News
Daniel Marans

It will not always unite us as a country, or give us a warm and fuzzy feeling inside the way the hunt for bin Laden did, but maybe we can now turn our attention to the pursuit of domestic nation-building.

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Religious Profiling -- The New Norm?

Nida Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Security, Flying, Muslims, Racial Profiling, Post-9/11, Discrimination, Jared Loughner, Air Travel, Tsa, Religious Profiling, Politics News
Nida Khan

If the last few major acts of violence in the U.S. were committed by White men, why is it that they are not scrutinized just as much as those that appear Muslim/Arab or simply 'other'?

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John Nava: The Timelessness of Now

John Seed | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: University of Southern California, Steven Sample, John Nava, Tapestry, Ronald Tutor, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, History, Art, Saints, Post 9/11, Diversity, Arts News
John Seed

Nava's use of tapestry as a medium adds to the feeling of timelessness that adds weight to the more particular and documentary aspects of the work.

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Bromwich Channels Edmund Burke: "America is out of itself" (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yale University, David Bromwich, Christopher Lydon, Literature, Bromwich, Conservatives, Barack Obama, Guantanamo, Edmund Burke, Obama, Democrats, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, India, France, Afghanistan, England, President Obama, War, Violence, History, Liberty, Nonviolence, East India Company, Character, Obama Character, Imperialism, Iraq, Tea Party, Bill Buckley, Impeachment, George Bush, George W. Bush, Warren Hastings, Limits of Power, Post-9/11, George Bush Barack Obama, Politics News
Christopher Lydon

David Bromwich is channeling the lost conservative voice of Edmund Burke, the missing wisdom on our mad Afghanistan misadventure.

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Global Health Diplomacy and the Muslim World: How Haiti Will Heal Us

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Global Health, Muslim Americans, Kaust, Swine Flu Pandemic, Global War on Terror, Prophet Mohamad, Saudi Arabian National Guard Health Affairs, Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health, Rashad Hussain, Haiti Earthquake, Tommy Thompson, Mass Gathering, Custodian of the Two Holy Cities, Saudi Arabia, Hajj, Special Representative for Global Partnerships, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services, Broader Engagement, Medicine, Dr. Scott McNabb, Obama Muslim World, Senator John Kerry, Meningitis, USS Comfort, Madinah, Physicians, 20th Century, Afghanistan, Saudi King Abdullah, Makkah, King-Abdullah-University-of-Science-and-Technology, H1N1 Influenza, Hajj Pilgrimage, Public Health, Dr. Ziad Memish, Idf, US-Islamic World Forum, Farah Pandith, Kingdom-of-Saudi-Arabia, Sars, Muslim World, Afghanistan War, Zakat, Elizabeth Bagley, Disaster Relief, King Abdul Aziz Medical Center, CDC Global Health Division, State-Department-Special-Representative-to-Muslim-Communities, Post 9/11, Global Health Diplomacy, Hillary Clinton, Doha, Haiti Aid, Obama Cairo Speech, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Collaborative work is emblematic of the increasingly important field of global health diplomacy and the Muslim world has an enormous role to play in this new conversation.

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A Post 9/11 Lie

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Truths, Lies, Children-and-Divorce, Terror, Trauma, Divorce, Homeland Security, Bureaucrats, Bureaucracy, Post 9/11, Divorce and Children, Healthy Living News
SaraKay Smullens

I wish I had never been terrified, turning to a lie for comfort. I know that in today's world, such "comforts" are far more trouble than they are worth.

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The Best Book Of The Decade

Alexander Nazaryan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Novels, Joseph O'Neill Netherland, The Grapes of Wrath, Best Books, Books, Netherland, Best Book of the Decade, Joseph O'Neill, Immigration, Post 9/11, Reading, New York City, The Great Gatsby, Books News
Alexander Nazaryan

No novel better captures the background dread of everyday life these days -- terrorism jitters, credit-default swaps, mutant flu strains -- than Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland".

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Closing GITMO: Is This the Department of Justice's Detention Model?

William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Court, Guantanamo Trials, Gitmo Detainees, Prison Inmates, SAMs, Syed Hashmi Solitary Confinement, Special Administrative Measures, Terror-Related Crimes, Post 9/11, Department of Justice, Terror Suspects, Politics News
William Fisher

The government is already imprisoning, in the U.S., American citizens awaiting trial on terror-related charges, under what their supporters describe as draconian conditions.

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Has Islamophobia Run Amok in America?

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 9/11, Islamophobia, India, Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, Abdul Kalam, Anti-Muslim Bias, Bollywood Stars, Airport Security, Cold War, Fbi-Counterterrorism, Al Qaeda, US China Relations, Counterterrorism, Post 9/11, Soviet Union, Politics News
Sheldon Filger

As America becomes increasingly seen as hostile to Muslims irrespective of who they are, while China is perceived as welcoming, these trends will translate into economic realities.

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Traveling as Press vs. NGO Head: Same Adventure

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Lome, United Nations Department of Public Information, Hong Kong, Guatemala City, Sri Lanka, Galle, Air France, South America, Asia, Ngo, Guyana, Chennai, Dallas, Paris, Singapore, Peru, Indonesia, Port-Au-Prince, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Miami, Dominican Republic, Aceh, Dubai, Swine Flu, Mexico City, Journalist, Africa, Ghana, San Salvador, Central America, International Development, Santo Domingo, Mexico, Colombia, New York, Haiti, Refugee Camps, Frankfurt, Jakarta, Tamil, Tsunami, Hurricane Jeanne, Togo, Post 9/11, India, Orphans International Worldwide, Huffington Post, JFK Airport, Bangalore, Gonaives, Bucharest, Media News
Jim Luce

I have flown from Haiti to Peru to Guyana in the Americas, Hong Kong to Indonesia to Sri Lanka in Asia, and Togo to Ghana in Africa.

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My Role in the Torture of Binyam Mohamed

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, Freedom of Speech, Post 9/11, Binyam Mohamed, Hydrogen Bomb, Jose Padilla, Torture, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

We had a government so vicious and impenetrably stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.

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"Comfort Food" is Not Just About the Food

Ina Pinkney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comfort Food, Post 9/11, The Hearty Boys, Rick Tramonto, Sara Moulton, INA's, Steve McDonaugh, Food Network, Dan Smith, Food, Gourmet Magazine, Chicago News
Ina Pinkney

What makes "comfort food" is the fact that it's nourishing food served in a nurturing environment.

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An Open Letter To The Next President Of The United States

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, John McCain, Anti-Americanism, Neocons, Post 9/11, Russia Georgia War, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

In just fifty days you will be, in theory, the most powerful man in the world. I say "in theory" because your first challenge will in fact be your country's decline in power. So, what is the reaction of a new America to a new world order?

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