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9/11 took a piece of America with it. My generation has no idea.
David J. Rush was fired from the C.I.A. after the F.B.I. found 303 gold bars in his Virginia home. Officials have said he created a fake classified program to funnel himself millions of dollars.
Cruz was blunt about the nature of the threat that the progressive left is incubating.
The spy agency released dozens of intelligence documents it had sent to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, outlining what was known about Al Qaeda.
Five years after the fall of Kabul, this Wall Street Journal opinion documentary investigates the day-to-day process of America's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, told by the people who lived it.
Advancing American Freedom warns JD Vance's childcare subsidy for stay-at-home parents could invite government intrusion and create work disincentives.
President George W. Bush took up painting after leaving the White House in 2009 and has since made it a conspicuous part of his post-presidency.
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
John Byrnes was at Hunter College on 9/11 before securing Ground Zero. Now he and four other veterans wrestle with what the wars accomplished.
Sometimes, candidates just acknowledge things that everyone already knows but that no one ever says out loud.
The creeping anxiety induced by low-flying planes of any sort lasted for years.
In her speech at the Pentagon, President Bush's national security adviser recalls the horror of that morning.
The Constitution makes states and Congress supreme in regulating elections. The president cannot usurp that power on the pretext of overseeing the Postal Service.
The judge, in halting the pretrial fact-finding process, said President Trump’s claim of immunity could “dispose of the entire case” involving the library to be built in Miami.
The mixed record of such programs in other countries suggests that the design of particular policies matters a lot.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 9/11 trial is set for 2028, but a ruling barring key FBI statements raises doubts families will ever see a verdict.
Nazira Haji Zada conceded being an “alien terrorist” in a case heard by a secretive court established three decades ago but which held its first hearing this year.
Twenty-five years after the attacks, our city has changed. But the colleagues and neighbors we lost have not been forgotten.
Terry Strada accused successive administrations of protecting Saudi Arabia and urged Trump to release unredacted 9/11 files on the 25th anniversary.
Politics of the Day
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
Why are big AI firm trying to create billionaires from a technology they say may end the world? There are real risks to AI, but something is very off about the latest social panic.
Reflections on a morning that changed the world as we knew it.
Every few decades, the ideas with the worst track records come back into style.
Stark warnings from A.I. researchers have reverberated across the country.
Thanks be to God. The last thing we need is more murder.
A top staffer for Sen. Jon Husted's reelection campaign recently made a playlist of songs in honor of White colonists in Rhodesia and wore a Nazi uniform.
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush received repeated CIA warnings that Usama bin Laden's network planned to hijack jets and attack U.S. cities.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Online media stars eager to promote President Trump and Republicans worked to find a message that would resonate with an audience that is struggling with an affordability crisis.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were seen grinning at the 9/11 Memorial as a mourner sobbed nearby on camera.
Anna D. Shapiro’s recent revival of Eric Bentley’s 1972 play about the HUAC hearings offered entertainment along with the pleasures of moral certainty and ideological reinforcement.
Blaming pro-life laws for bad health outcomes has become a cottage industry among journalists who support legal abortion.
He defied almost all his advisors, including Vice President J.D. Vance, and has done all the right things on the Iran War.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley demand DOJ and FBI investigate Black hanging deaths, alleging racial terror and modern-day lynchings.
Footage captured Zohran Mamdani greeting Rudolph Giuliani at Ground Zero as victims' families and first responders criticize his 9/11 attendance.
Nazira Haji Zada admitted she was an "alien terrorist" in the first-ever use of a specialized federal court created 30 years ago by Congress after an ISIS Election Day plot.
A new report on the Canada Research Chairs program analyses the reduced standards applied to scholars belonging to ‘equity groups.’
The Indiana state Senate election was held in May but was close, prompting a challenge.
Trump's Clarity Act faces a critical 60-vote test as Democrats demand crypto ethics rules tied to the President's $1.4 billion digital currency earnings.
Trump got his big show. Vance took the baton. “Common sense” was the refrain. No bad vibes allowed.
The president appeared to embrace the idea that after 9/11, no risk can be tolerated, an echo of reasoning used by previous American officials in the “forever wars” that he has long denounced.
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President Donald Trump spoke at a solemn Pentagon ceremony marking the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and edged close to embracing policies he has long criticized.
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
A community that embraces a set of shared beliefs is not necessarily a bad thing, but the value of solidarity depends entirely on the merits of the cause in question.
President Trump’s trip comes after a two-day Republican rally in Dallas, where he tried to energize voters amid fears that the party could face losses in the midterms.
The president attacked three Democrats running for Senate this week with inaccurate claims to portray them as too extreme.
A discussion with former NYPD director of intelligence analysis Mitchell Silber
The long, odd two-night TV production hoped to reach a select audience of die-hard voters (if football didn’t intercept them).
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Trump toured the new National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, then signed legislation for a new monument near the Lincoln Memorial.
English departments are increasingly ignoring the great works of the past, in favour of popular literary works that reflect activist themes and nonliterary works of political and social theory.
‘I’m proud of Ted Cruz for speaking honestly and openly about the nature of this threat, because we will not confront it unless we define it.’
The enduring legacy of heroes.
Films don’t owe us the accuracy of a documentary, but greater fidelity to the historical record would have made for a better story.
Two veterans from different political parties took disparate lessons from the post-9/11 wars.
The mainstream press was far from perfect. But before the era of hot takes, information silos, steep budget cuts, and ugly charges of fake news, it had strengths that we need now.
At the midterm event, the president had audience members raise their hands and repeat after him.
Abdul El-Sayed's 9/11 video message drew fierce online backlash over his association with Hasan Piker, who notoriously claimed America deserved 9/11.
9/11 was a powerful demonstration that notions of happy universalism were bunkum.
May the 25th anniversary of our 'never forget' moment find us with something true, good, and beautiful to show for it.
A county elections supervisor in the state said the Postal Service initially rejected the ballots envelope he was planning to use over a 0.014-inch discrepancy.
We scoured hundreds of The Wall Street Journal's articles to show how the terrorist attacks continue to reverberate a quarter-century later
The stakes in this already high-stakes game of chicken keep rising.
Differences in height between men and women—a biomarker of stressor exposure in childhood—suggest that poor early health and nutrition constrain what children are achieving at school.
Interviews with two veterans in Congress highlight how the terrorist attacks that sparked wars in Iraq and Afghanistan changed the nation’s politics but did not leave its leaders with monolithic views.
The president's social media posts are ludicrous distractions from his policy failures-but they also put his fascistic views on full display.
Political scientist Richard Hanania discusses why populism usually fails, why Western elites matter, immigration, MAGA, H-1B visas, housing and declining fertility.
Our politics reporter Reid Epstein explains how the Trump administration is using the Postal Service to intervene in mail-in voting in state elections.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
Francis Fukuyama’s new memoir assesses an intellectual life devoted to the health of the liberal-democratic idea.
Sex is declining because the options seem endless. This is counter-intuitive, but biologically it makes sense.
Republicans hoped to boost enthusiasm for Ken Paxton during the two-day event in Dallas. The Texas attorney general is facing off against Democrat James Talarico in November for a U.S. Senate seat.
Sydney psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed on why men who quit work aren't depressed but demoralised, and how mental health labels became a rival source of status and dignity.
The only fraternal organization for women special operations veterans held a gala to mark the wars that began 25 years ago. It came as the Pentagon questions women’s roles in the military.
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in the Michigan Senate race, has faced a backlash from some Jewish Democrats for his intense criticism of Israel.
A book celebrating American stories.