The worst people you know are panicking over Mamdani’s election in New York—and it’s (mostly) a wonderful thing to witness.

The president seems fixated on cultural institutions these days.

Representative Derrick Van Orden had the weirdest defense ever of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The Republican senator is openly embracing the most outrageous conspiracy theory.

He takes a 9/11 “truther” to the 9/11 ceremony. Are we going to start talking frankly now about his mental unfitness?

9/11 was supposed to usher in an era of catastrophic jihadist attacks. Instead, we’re living in fear of a different kind of mass violence.

The former president’s recent Ukraine-or-Iraq invasion gaffe was a high-test dose of accidental honesty—and painful nostalgia.

Afghanistan is in the midst of a desperate humanitarian crisis, and the White House seems bent on deepening it.

It’s not that the Taliban are nice fellows. It’s just no longer in their self-interest to harbor Al Qaeda—which is pretty decimated anyway.

His 2024 campaign is inevitable. The only question is how the media will handle his shameless, desperate attempts for their attention.

We veterans survived the post-9/11 wars through dumb luck. Surviving the aftermath was another story.

Five principles that would end the forever wars and foster peace and justice around the world.

How the Capitol riot was a natural consequence of the country’s response to the 9/11 attacks

With nearly 90,000 dead and counting, there has been no national remembrance for those we’ve lost to the pandemic.

A fledgling armistice endangers the country’s 20-year experiment in democratic state-building.

A judge has finally questioned the FBI's terrorism watch list. But so much else that followed the attacks is now an accepted part of American life.

Nick Drnaso's 'Sabrina,' which has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, is a quiet revelation.

How a U.S. citizen captured on the battlefield with ISIS may finally force America to confront the legacy of 9/11

The show started out exploiting fears of Islamic terror. The latest season represents an awkward transition to a new political era.