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Why 9/11 Still Baffles Us, 25 Years On
A small band of jihadists baited the world's only superpower into a quarter century of self-inflicted strategic ruin.
Foreign Policy · 4m
Bush paints 9/11, and leaves out the wars
Twenty-five years on, the president who launched the War on Terror marks the anniversary with 16 canvases about courage.
Mother Jones · 1m
How national security came to mean everything
A 25 percent tariff on trumpets shows how one phrase became the government's all-purpose excuse.
Mother Jones · 1m
Bin Laden Won the War on Terror
The argument that 9/11 did not open a new era but closed the Cold War, and that our politics are living in the rubble.
TIME · 3m