What do we remember when we remember 9/11?
Our remembrance of 9/11 is about the greatness of America; in the process, it fails Americans.
ByTerrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of violence to create a climate of fear in a population with the aim of disturbing the status quo, overthrowing authorities or attacking a particular group for ideological reasons. Terror has also been used by governments against their people to suppress dissent, for example in Nazi Germany.
A new docuseries captures 9/11 minute by minute
9/11: One Day in America forces the viewer to experience the attacks in painful detail.
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Leader: The long shadow of 9/11
After 20 years of failed interventionism and a humiliation in Afghanistan, Joe Biden's US may have found a role better…
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Why the London Bridge attack is a challenge for Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson
Jeremy Corbyn delivered a speech on two subjects that have a ready audience among a British public that is still…
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Iran has been the winner of the Middle East unrest since 9/11 but now Trump is hitting back
Although we should be used to it by now, the sight of a US president casually lobbing around threats of…
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The story of Moira Smith – the only female NYPD officer to perish in the line of duty on 9/11
A comic book artist pays tribute to one of New York City’s heroines.
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Amazon’s 9/11 series, The Looming Tower, has two fantastic performances at its heart
Plus, new Netflix documentary series Flint Town.
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Fifteen years on from 9/11, how the UK bypassed justice to become a counter-terrorism state
The sinister story of legislation in Britain following the New York terrorist attacks.
ByA 9/11 reader
Ten of the best articles on the tenth anniversary of the attack.
ByMehdi Hasan on Question Time, Israel and 9/11
An astonishing claim -- even by his standards -- from Richard Perle.
ByWhat is the lasting legacy of 9/11?
Ten years after the twin towers fell, research indicates that it has not had a lasting effect on people's lives.
ByWe will never forget 9/11. But it has not shaped us
What happened was huge, but the neocons have gone, and the Middle East and the west are not engaged
ByWhere were you on 9/11?
It is an event etched into our collective memory. We asked writers, politicians, and activists to remember where they were…
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Ten years after 9/11, the true threat is not a super-villain skulking in the desert, says Laurie Penny
We have been starved of the meaning and context of global disaster.
ByIn this week’s New Statesman: 9/11 Special Issue
Memories of 9/11 | Adam Kirsch: How America changed | Mehdi Hasan: Fear and the terror industry
ByAfter a decade of war, the west is weak and in retreat
Western leaders no longer proclaim their desire to reorder the world.
By9/11 ten years on: what the public think now
45 per cent believe that a terrorist attack is either likely or very likely in the UK in the next…
By9/11 anniversary protests: in pictures
The commemoration was marred by competing protests for and against the proposed Muslim community cen
ByAmerica remembers 9/11 amid souring community relations
When official commemorations are over, rallies will begin both for and against the proposed Islamic
ByClinton condemns 9/11 Quran burning
US secretary of state joins General Petraeus in condemning plans by a small Florida church to burn c
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