9/11

This past week the world commemorated one of the grimmest anniversaries in human history—the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200,000 people. Today is the 75th anniversary…

Sometimes the clearest way to view current events is through the lens of recent history. Contrary to the pundit class, we’re not living in a different world. It’s the same…

In Leningrad in January of 1990 (it didn’t become St. Petersburg again until late that year), Vladimir Putin was still in the KGB. Only the year before he had single-handedly,…

World News – Javier Altamirano remembers exactly where he was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

World News – Phone lines don’t work? The paramilitary force protecting one of the world’s most violent cities has an answer: Call in the troops via chat messenger.

When I was young, America’s premier TV newsmagazine, 60 minutes, did hard-hitting political exposés. These days half the segments are schlock. That was tolerable until it crossed the line into…

World News – The video footage of the moment the second plane hits the World Trade Center can still shock, even though we’ve seen it so many times. And here, below the…

World News – More than a dozen years after 9/11, the unidentified remains of World Trade Center victims returned to ground zero Saturday after a solemn ride through Manhattan. The relocation from…