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SOURCE: Forbes
3/29/2020
As COVID-19 Spreads, Mary Barra Needs To Denounce Trump As Bad For Capitalism
Historian Nelson Lichtenstein compares Trump's response to coronavirus with previous presidents' handling of crises.
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9-10-18
Another Reason to Celebrate John McCain Was His Critical Role in Establishing the 9-11 Commission
by Anthony Toth
He made sure the most important questions were answered.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
6-28-18
True scale of UK role in torture and rendition after 9/11 revealed
Two damning reports reveal British intelligence’s treatment of terrorism suspects.
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5/27/18
These Investigations All Took Much Longer than Mueller’s Probe Has So Far
by Bruce W. Dearstyne
History suggests the need for patience.
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SOURCE: WSJ
9-22-17
Wall Street Journal study finds that rural youths who enlisted after 9/11 shouldered the greatest burden for the nation’s defense
Per capita, nearly twice as many small-town Americans have died at war since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks compared with those from large metro areas.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
9-11-17
How 9/11 triggered democracy’s decline
by Jeremi Suri
The attack spawned wars to export democracy abroad, while degrading it at home.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
9-9-17
The CIA's Tortured Historical Amnesia
by Kristie Macrakis
What to do about it.
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SOURCE: Hartford Courant
9-11-17
Central Connecticut State University Professor Examines How 9/11 Is Fading From Our Memories
“In another two years, my students are going to have absolutely no emotional connection or memory of 9/11 at all. The subject is merely going to be another history class to them." – Matthew Warshauer
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9-11: Tweets
Tweets about 9-11 that HNN researchers come across, in reverse chronological order.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
3-31-17
FBI Releases Never-Before-Seen Photos From 9/11 Pentagon Attack
The newly released FBI images show firefighters and first responders working at the scene.
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SOURCE: Miami Herald
2-8-17
Alleged mastermind tells Obama 9/11 was America’s fault
“It was not we who started the war against you in 9/11. It was you and your dictators in our land,” Khalid Sheik Mohammed, 51, writes in the 18-page letter to Obama.
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SOURCE: The Orange County Register
9-14-16
Conservatives complain when a liberal historian at Saddleback College takes down their 9-11 poster
They claim she overstepped her authority as a department chairwoman and professor by taking down the posters, suggesting that if the group had been rallying for a more traditionally liberal cause, she would have left them untouched.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
9-10-16
Rescuing the Lost Art of 9/11
How 9/11 spawned one of the most unusual art preservation efforts of the modern era.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
9-11-16
15 Years after 9/11, can we Recover our Republic?
by Juan Cole
Making sure the Constitution and our rights are strong is the best way of honoring the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
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9-9-16
Here’s What Else We Should Be Remembering this 9/11
by Anthony Toth
In millions of people it brought out the better angels of our nature.
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9-8-16
9/11 Struck Fear in Americans for more than the Obvious Reasons
by Peter N. Stearns
15 years later it’s time to acknowledge why we reacted the way we did.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
9-8-16
The tacky practice of using 9/11 to market consumer goods backfires yet again
Each year, companies across the United States employ remarkably tone-deaf marketing strategies that somehow reference 9/11.
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SOURCE: NYT
9-6-16
Long-Lost 9/11 Flag, an Enduring Mystery, Will Go on View at Museum
The flag, which was featured in a famous photograph of ground zero and disappeared soon after the attack, will again become a prominent part of Lower Manhattan.
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SOURCE: NYT
6-17-16
A Saudi Imam, 2 Hijackers and Lingering 9/11 Mystery
To some, a classified section of an inquiry into the terrorist attacks points to Saudi involvement, while the country’s foreign minister says, “There is no there there.”
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SOURCE: NBC News
5-9-16
New Photos Show President Bush's Initial Response to 9/11 Attacks
The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Friday released new photos of the president responding to the 9/11 attacks.
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