Airline Terrorism

Pamela Geller's War

Eleven years ago, Pamela Geller declared war on savages who were trying to take over the world. This November, she admits she lost.

9/11 Healthcare Worker Fund Will Now Start Covering Cancer Link

Thankfully, this bit of news is a little more resounding for the World Trade Center anniversary on Tuesday than our report of the political dispute between Bloomberg and Cuomo over the Museum funds from earlier today.According to the New York Post, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and ... More >>

"I'm So Bummed Politicians Won't Be Speaking At 9/11 Memorial" Is Something You'll Never Hear Anyone Say...Ever

Commemorating the most tragic day in U.S. history will be slightly easier to watch his year -- the 9/11 memorial will still be pretty sad, as the names of all the victims of the terrorist attacks will be read at the sight of the World Trade Center. But unlike previous years, politicians won't get a ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg Slams Results of Port Authority Audit, Says WTC Memorial is Worth the Cost

Mayor Bloomberg has slammed the results of an audit that called the Port Authority "a challenged and dysfunctional organization" with "ineffective cost controls," saying that the cost of the World Trade Center memorial is worth it for the sake of New York's reputation. "Can you imagine? If America ... More >>

9/11 Anniversary; Swedish Terror Arrests; Cliff Robertson Passes Away

​Commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks are being held around the country to remember those lost a decade ago. At the site of the World Trade Center memorial--which opens to the general public tomorrow--President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush will spea ... More >>

Andreas von Bülow: The World's Most Respectable 9/11 Conspiracy Nut

von Bulow: CIA blew up the World Trade CenterThere are 9/11 conspiracy nuts who are nuts and then there's German politician Andreas von Bülow, a member of the center-left Social Democrats who spent 25 years in the Bundestag and was Helmut Schmidt's Minister for Research and Technology for a few ... More >>

'Knock Knock, Who's There, 9/11, 9/11 Who?'

Faces of Ground Zero: 10 Years Later

LOOKING BACK

Granta explores the post-9/11 world

Barriers

9/11 Families Sue City Over Plans To Put Remains At Museum

​A group of 9/11 family members are suing the city, demanding that they turn over the complete contact list for all relatives of people killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The lawsuit, filed this week, is the latest part of a dispute between some family groups and the 9 ... More >>

Atheists Don't Want World Trade Center Cross at the 9/11 Memorial

​Atheists groups have been particularly vocal about what they do and don't want with regard to 9/11 memorials, whether they be street signs in Red Hook (Seven in Heaven Way) or displaying the World Trade Center cross at the 9/11 Memorial. The American Atheists have filed a lawsuit, which names ... More >>

President Obama Visits Ground Zero: A Report from the Scene

C. S. Muncy​It was a brilliantly sunny day in Lower Manhattan when President Obama visited Ground Zero around lunchtime. It wasn't as cloudless as September 11th, 2001, but the similarity was uncanny enough to make many of the reporters waiting on line comment about how alike the two days felt ... More >>

9/11 Workers' Settlement Suit Is Finally Almost Over

​The New York Times is reporting that the 9/11 workers who sued the city over health damages they suffered during Ground Zero rescue and recovery efforts have finally agreed to accept a $625 million settlement from the city after years of negotiations and delays.

The Post's Map of Human Remains at Ground Zero and the Culture of Fear

​Nine years ago, terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers, killing thousands and inciting fear in millions. In fact, fear is perhaps 9/11's most pervasive legacy, and it follows that fear-mongering has become a trick of the trade among politicians, news outlets, and basically, anyone with an opinion. ... More >>

Dear Rest-of-America: Take This Map, It's Why You're Wrong About the "Ground Zero Mosque"

​According to a recent Siena Research Institute poll, 50% of New Yorkers think that the "Ground Zero Mosque" will promote racial and religious tolerance. Yet: 68% of Americans oppose it, despite the endorsements of New York City's mayor and the President of the United States of America. But th ... More >>

Downtown Mosque Poetry: "We Don't Landmark the Sky, But I Wish We Could"

The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to deny granting "individual landmark status" to 45-47 Park Place today, removing one of the final roadblocks to the Cordoba Initiative's plan to build a $100 million mosque and community center near Ground Zero. The commissioners' una ... More >>

No Connection Between 9/11 Attacks and Disease?

​At this point, saying that science has yet to directly link 9/11 exposure to the wide range of ailments suffered by Ground Zero workers is like poking a gorilla in the eye with a stick or commanding a boulder to stop rolling downhill. After all, the city is ready to fork over more than $600 ... More >>

So Much For that Giant Settlement With Ground Zero Workers

​Last Monday, to great fanfare, the city announced a settlement had been reached with ailing Ground Zero workers after some six years of litigation. The settlement would have provided up to $657.5 million for the medical expenses of people who labored at the World Trade Center site following t ... More >>

White House Crotch-Bomber Report: "The Dots Were Never Connected"

The White House report on the attempted underwear-bomb attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (pictured) on a Delta airliner during Christmas contains a lot of praise for America's "counter-terrorism community" -- in the summary, their "excellent analytic work" is lauded, and it is asserted that this w ... More >>

CONSPIRACY THEORY

A new take on 9/11

While Schumer Slept

For five years, New York's senior senator said nothing about the toxic cloud that hung over his own constituents.

V For Violence

From Al Basrah to the AMC, 2006 meant war

Death by Dust

The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic cloud and cancer

Reprint: Terror Attack

An eyewitness account of 9-11

Reprint: Team Bush Swamped by Crisis

Nation looks for leadership after attacks

Weeping With the Enemy

Phyllis Rodriguez lost her son at the World Trade Center. And then she found the mother of Zacarias Moussaoui.

Bolten: Loyalist, Lone Voice of Dissent—or Both?

New White House chief of staff challenged Cheney on 9-11

Tower Tales

Hoping to make buildings safer, scientists want to talk to WTC survivors

Blots on the Record

The Bloomberg administration's fight for 9-11 secrecy

Rudy to the Rescue

Katrina stuns, Bush stumbles—time to call the master of disaster

Memorial Plots

The clash over exactly what story to tell at the ground zero museum

Hijacking the Facts

FBI worked hard to cover up a 9-11 cover-up—and then hide it some more

Feign of Terror

A British filmmaker deconstructs the politics of fear exploited by radical Islamists and American neocons alike.

9-11: Why the Buildings Fell Down

Voice's Jennifer Gonnerman Named Finalist for National Book Award

Letters

The 9-11 Bogeyman

Reading Between the Lines

What's covered in the 9-11 report? What's covered up?

Timeline of Tragedy

Picking up the pieces of 9-11, putting them in order, trying to make sense

Plane Truth

Among Questions Still Up In The Air Is Why Our Jet Fighters Weren't

Families of 9-11 Victims Rally Against Bush Warmongering

Making Enemies

Post–9-11 Crackdowns Spurring Prejudice

The Parallax View

Knowing Much, Bush Did Little to Protect America

Clichés for a Reason

Not Knowing What Else to Do, Singers Sing 9-11 Songs

Letters

NY Mirror

The Crash of Flight 587 Has Been Called a Terrible Accident. Buy That Version?

Ground Hog

Jesse Jackson Raids the Graveyard—On Al Sharpton’s Watch