Nation Topics - Terrorism Targeting the US | The Nation

A new exhibit inadvertently displays why Americans might be confused about what terrorism is and how to fight it.

If the United States can abandon the idea of a "war" on terror in favor of a comprehensive and equitable collective response, we may have a shot at
stopping the right from destroying the nation in order to save it.

The most effective response to terrorism involves nonmilitary actions in cooperation with the global community and within a framework of domestic and international law.

The world is in tumult, but in the heart of Empire, the level of creative political energy runs flat along the bottom of the graph.

Five years after the attack, Americans are impatient and angry about what has been done in their name. Our national tragedy is not September 11 but the war in Iraq, an agony that promises to go on for years.

How conservative zealot David Horowitz produced and promoted ABC's flawed docudrama, The Path to 9/11.

It's no wonder so many Americans are examining alternative explanations that range from the plausible to the absurd.

What if the Twin Towers hadn't collapsed? Would the Bush Administration have so easily advanced its fear-inspired "war on terror" without the images that played on a culture's secret fears?

The most effective response to terrorism involves nonmilitary actions in cooperation with the global community and within a framework of domestic and international law.

The Bush Administration's illegitimate use of renditions,
disappearances, torture and an illegal war has fostered the growth of a
loose-knit global band of fanatics willing to do unspeakable violence
against us.