The chance of another terror attack on the scale of 9/11 happening anywhere in the world is only 7 percent, according to a new report to the Pentagon ...
Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
Keith Olbermann slammed Glenn Beck last night for invoking 9/11 in his opposition to health care reform. Beck launched into a rant about how he could...
AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Five immigrant men who were detained in roundups in New York and eventually deported following the Sept. 11 attacks have reached a $1...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
The latest lunatic fringe talking point equates Democratic-led efforts at health care reform with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American soil. During...
AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
NEW YORK -- The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city Monday with a 21-gun salute near...
AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 11.01.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of setting a small fire at the temporary home for the remains of thousands of World Trade Ce...
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
This is the true story of a couple of ordinary Americans who thought, once they turned 60, that life would be uneventful. Instead, they've just won a prestigious award that honours their world-changing work.
AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
SHERWANGAI, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers battling their way into a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border have seized passports that may be...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
SHERWANGAI, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers battling their way into a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border have seized passports that may be...
David Quigg | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The basic grim truths that Matthew Hoh wrote about in his much-quoted resignation letter were all basically true when he took his job a few months ago.
William Bradley | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
We can't afford to build a nation in Afghanistan. We have one reasonable goal there, and everything else, no matter how seemingly noble it may or may not be, is a luxury.
Nelson Montana | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York
Even if there wasn't one thin dime spent in advertising, in a straight up comparison, Bloomberg is clearly the better man than Thompson.
Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 10.24.2009 | World
Given the UN's extraordinary and continuing role in Afghanistan, it would seem appropriate at this time that it might consider guiding President Obama toward a resolution of the dilemma he now faces.
Simon Jenkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
It is insufferable that Afghanistan, a miserable statelet, can reject liberal democracy despite the efforts of 70,000 NATO and NGO staff kicking their heels in Kabul's dust for eight years.
nydailynews.com | Douglas Feiden | Posted 10.23.2009 | New York
Taxpayers will have to cough up another $20 million for Ground Zero because of the brutal battle raging between the Port Authority and developer Larry...
Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Actually, Mr. Cheney, what hurts troops is bad judgment--particularly when exercised by an overzealous, power-hungry, maniacal Vice President like you.
nytimes.com | Jennifer 8. Lee | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York
The tasteful Tiffany gift registry politely requests an opulent sterling silver Chippendale tray (listed for $2,868.75) and a delicate Queen Anne tea ...
Talat Hamdani | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
The military commissions, which will continue to be tainted by the dark legacy of Guantánamo, will always be doubted and cannot achieve the justice that 9/11 family members and all Americans deserve.
Eric Margolis | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
The claim that al-Qaida will reuse Afghanistan as a giant base camp, like Saddam's non-existent weapons of mass destruction, is a handy slogan to market the war to the public.
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Some have said that the two party system is what makes us strong. They say it helps create a balance of power with one side keeping tabs on the other...
Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Much of the right-wing rhetoric about health care reform -- focusing on such non-issues as socialism, government control, and higher taxes -- has been obscuring what health care reform is really about: our mortality!
New York Times | JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTON | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verif...
David Quigg | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Afghanistan represents the opportunity for Obama to serve the American people brilliantly and, along the way, demonstrate that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have questioned two men whose photographs were shown to a Muslim religious leader along with a picture of an Af...
Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
I have seen what is antiseptically known as collateral damage from this war in two unlikely places: the city of Paris and the countryside of rural Punjab.
Posted 11.04.2009 | World