Perhaps the most effective antidote to 9/11 will prove to be 2/11, the day Hosni Mubarak conceded the game was up with his 30-year-old dictatorship and left town under military escort for the beach. We’ve tried invasions of Muslim lands. We’ve tried imposing new systems of government on them....

Ah, the airport, where modern folk heroes are made. The airport, where that inspired flight attendant did what everyone who’s ever been in the spam-in-a-can crush of a flying aluminum tube – where we collectively pretend that a clutch of peanuts is a meal and a seat cushion is a “flotation...

In his first major interview since leaving office, former president George W. Bush defended the most controversial aspects of his tenure – including the use of waterboarding against terrorism suspects and the invasion of Iraq. Bush seemed eager to explain himself on the use of waterboarding,...

El pasado 11 de septiembre se cumplieron nueve años del aquel día en que cambió nuestro mundo. Por tanto, fue un día especialmente importante para comprender por qué lo que sucedió esa mañana del 2001 constituye una lección, hasta este momento, desaprovechada. Que el mundo no es igual ahora,...

John David Franz, a lifelong resident of Hidalgo in the Rio Grande Valley, was driving to nearby McAllen one morning recently when he was stopped by a Department of Public Safety officer. The trooper told Franz the right front tire on his late-model SUV had skimmed the white line on the right side...

Did America overreact to September 11? In a recent column in Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria answered that with an emphatic and mournful “yes.” In Mr. Zakaria’s telling, we’ve squandered billions of dollars heedlessly feeding our national security bureaucracies, which hardly provide us, as the French...

The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, succeeded far beyond anything Osama bin Laden could possibly have envisioned. This is not just because they resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths, nor only because they struck at the heart of American financial and military power. Those outcomes were only the bait; it would...

President Obama urged a Florida pastor Thursday to call off a plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11, warning that such a “stunt” would amount to a “recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda” and would endanger Americans. Obama added his voice to a chorus of criticism of the proposed...

The number of Americans who believe — wrongly — that President Obama is a Muslim has increased significantly since his inauguration and now accounts for nearly 20 percent of the nation’s population. Those results, from a new Pew Research Center survey, were drawn from interviews done...

As Washington and the nation continued this week to process President Obama‘s remarks on the Islamic cultural center planned near Ground Zero, one fact remained indisputable: This was a controversy of the president’s True, some folks had been publicly pushing Obama to join the fray. But ...