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Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Wim Wenders’s Pina.

The World Trade Center paved over a patchwork of industrial docks and community businesses to become a planned community catering to high finance.

How the World Trade Center turned Manhattan into a planned community.

From Pearl Harbor to 9/11, every single chapter in the history of the extension of US power has opened with the same sentence: “Innocent Americans were treacherously attacked…”

 We must use the anniversary of 9/11 as a chance to see ourselves more clearly.

We need to respect government workers' vital service as being separate from the corruption and bureaucracy that have tarnished Washington's reputation.

How Washington lost faith in America’s courts.

The increasing involvement of unmanned drones in our warmaking suggests that it might be useful to stop thinking of war in exclusively human terms.

As the US scales back the war in Afghanistan, shouldn't we be scaling back the sacrifices of civil liberties we've made here at home?

How is the war going ten years later in Afghanistan? Take a look now and you could easily believe the news came from a previous year of the war.