A rally against President Donald Trump’s order that restricts travel to the U.S.
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This isn’t the first time the US has banned people based on nationality. History shows these exclusions have put our national security at risk and caused rifts with foreign allies.
Protesters gather on the National Mall for the Women’s March on Washington during the first full day of Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Inaugural weekends are snapshots of the cultural and political zeitgeist. How did this year’s compare to those from 2009 and 2005?
15 years on after the September 11 terrorism attacks, research shows global terrorism can give some companies competitive advantages while destroying others.
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The effects of terrorism on businesses are wide ranging but some are learning how to adapt to risk and use it to their competitive advantage.
The view from Brooklyn on September 11, 2001.
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What we and other responders learned that day would go on to spark major changes in U.S. emergency response efforts.
The dust has yet to settle.
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Scarred by disastrous wars and thousands of deaths caused by terrorism, the world is still reeling from the events of September 2001.
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The debates surrounding the 9/11 novel have been as informative as the novels themselves.
Collective trauma: A boy walks among some of the 3,000 flags placed in memory of the lives lost in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Even indirect exposure to the terrorist attacks of September 11 has left profound and deep impact on those too young to remember a world before that.
The new One World Trade Center building, made with high-performance concrete.
John D. Morris
Tragedies involving building collapses prompt structural engineers to figure out what happened, and how to prevent it from recurring.
Embodiment of defiance… or foolhardy design?
Paul Silva
Are terrorist attacks also an implicit design critique of our urban landscape? An architect and urban designer suggests we can fight terrorism by not building obvious targets.
Lower Manhattan’s new skyline.
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Those involved with the monumental task faced many challenges as they balanced the unquestionable priority of remembrance with the commercial task of recreating an economically vibrant downtown.
Cover of The Silent Minaret.
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The protagonist in the novel ‘The Silent Minaret’ gets us to question that powerful political-cultural myth of being tied to nation. That is a remarkable achievement in fiction.
Could this be you?
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‘American Idol’ fittingly appeared nine months after 9/11 – and ends just in time for Donald Trump’s rise.
How best to get out?
Ambrozinio
Getting out in a crisis is often harder than it looks. But science can help.
Without the perfect-storm conditions of post-invasion insurgency, this most potent expression of al-Qaedaism yet would never have risen to dominate both the Middle East and the world in the way that it does.
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The final article of our series on the historical roots of Islamic State examines the role recent Western intervention in the Middle East played in the group’s inexorable rise.
The Crusades evoke a romantic image of medieval knights, chivalry, romance and religious high-mindedness.
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Representing even the Crusades as wars between Christians and Muslims is a gross oversimplification and a misreading of history.
The Tribute in Light is seen on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. 9/11 was the beginning of major changes in the intelligence community.
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The tactics used by America’s current and potential future enemies are constantly changing. Higher education can help by producing graduates able to work in intelligence communities.
Brian Williams will be a breaking news reporter for MSNBC.
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In the years after a traumatic news event, we’re prone to confuse things we saw on TV with what we witnessed in person.
The 7/7 memorial in London.
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It can’t compete with the US, but the UK became part of mega-memorial culture after the London bombings.
Londoners gather to remember.
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The US and UK were attacked by suicide bombers within a few years of each other, but their responses were very different.
Recognizing death’s inevitability, people find comfort in their beliefs.
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Why are atheists deemed as untrustworthy as rapists?