What Was Saudi Arabia’s Involvement in 9/11?

By Medea Benjamin Sep 11, 2016 The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were a direct outgrowth of the fundamentalist Wahhabist ideology that defines the oil-rich kingdom. For this reason alone, the Saudi regime should be held accountable. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Donald Trump Does Away With the GOP’s 9/11 Fantasy

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Feb 16, 2016 "Surely this time," the Republican establishment chorus cries with joy, "Donald Trump has gone too far!" Don't bet on it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

New York Values: What Tiny Ted Cruz Will Never Get About the Big Town

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jan 16, 2016 Demagogues denigrating New York come and go with boring predictability -- and the nation's greatest city will continue to thrive long after the Texas senator is merely an unpleasant memory. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Sept. 11, Beirut, Benghazi: It’s the Terrorists’ Fault

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Oct 20, 2015 Bad things happen on every president's watch -- also every secretary of state's -- and the proper place to lay blame is on the perpetrators. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

For the Children of the World Trade Center Victims

By BJ Ward Sep 11, 2015 "This poem is trying to reach your mother/ in her business skirt, and get her home/ to Ridgewood where she can change/ to her robe and sip Chamomile tea/ as she looks through the bay window at the old,/ untouched New York City skyline." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Joe Sacco: A Bomb in Every Comic

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 3, 2014 Joe Sacco’s satirical “Bumf” is a radical, savage and sidesplitting look at America’s species of corporate totalitarianism. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

President Obama Remembers 9/11: ‘As Americans We Do Not Give In to Fear, Ever’

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Sep 12, 2014 President Obama marked the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the grounds of one of the hijackers' targets, the Pentagon, commemorating the occasion with rhetorical flourishes that invited Americans to see themselves as fearless and ever on the up-and-up. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Before and After: Reflections on the 9/11 Memorial and Museum

Bill Blum / Truthdig Jun 15, 2014 The events of Sept. 11, 2001, form a pivot point in our history and collective imagination, separating what we recall, however naively, as the relative quiet of the late 20th century from the endless war on terror that still grips and shapes the 21st. The events of Sept. 11, 2001, separate what we recall as the relative quiet of the late 20th century from the endless war on terror that still grips and shapes the 21st. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Legalizing Oppression

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 10, 2014 The disbarring and imprisonment of Lynne Stewart, one of the nation’s most courageous civil rights lawyers, is a window into the collapse of our judiciary. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Bush Administration Ignored 9/11 Warnings

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 11, 2012 For those who never knew, the Bush White House received numerous warnings from the counterterrorism desk at the CIA of an imminent attack by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida on the United States. Former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald tells of the still-classified briefs issued to the Bush administration in the months leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Documents Show Feds Downplayed Ground Zero Health Risks

Staff / Truthdig Sep 12, 2011 New documents have emerged showing that officials in Washington and New York misrepresented or concealed information that ultimately might have protected thousands of people from the contaminated air at Ground Zero.Officials misrepresented or concealed information that ultimately might have protected thousands of people. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Scenes From the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Staff / Truthdig Sep 12, 2011 Americans gathered at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Manhattan and at other sites Sunday to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )