9/11 and the birth of the Big Lie (via)
“We had no capacity or experience with some of our tasks”
How America Failed Afghanistan. “We checked the box when it came to saying that we had trained our partners, spun a rosy narrative of progress, and perhaps prioritized the safety and well-being of our troops over the mission of buttressing partner capa…
An organizing motto for their grief
After Bobby McIlvaine died on September 11, 2001, his family’s grief ravelled in many different ways. In a sensitive, and often surprising, account, Jennifer Senior traces the tangled threads to their unexpected destinations in the present.