The Enduring Legacy of a Mike Piazza Home Run
The Atlanta Braves-New York Mets game from Sept. 21, 2001, remains a historic moment of grief, mourning, and hope after 9/11.
The Atlanta Braves-New York Mets game from Sept. 21, 2001, remains a historic moment of grief, mourning, and hope after 9/11.
Ryan Hockensmith ESPN Sep 2021 20min Permalink
Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11.
Jennifer Senior The Atlantic Aug 2021 30min Permalink
The author visits the 9/11 Memorial Museum, 13 years after his sister’s death.
Steve Kandell Buzzfeed May 2014 10min Permalink
Behind the scenes, a small team of FBI agents spent years trying to solve a stubborn mystery — whether officials from Saudi Arabia, one of Washington’s closest allies, were involved in the worst terror attack in U.S. history. This is their story.
Tim Golden, Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Jan 2020 50min Permalink
An oral history of the war in Afghanistan.
Fahim Abed, Fatima Faizi New York Times Magazine Oct 2019 30min Permalink
In the days after 9/11, a photo of an unknown man falling from the South Tower appeared in publications across the globe. This is the story of that photograph, and of the search to find the man pictured in it.
The case against “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh.
Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2003 35min Permalink
The life story of Rick Rescorla: immigrant, war hero, husband, and head of security at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter, occupant of 22 floors in the South Tower on September 11, 2001.
James B. Stewart New Yorker Feb 2002 40min Permalink
Life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror.
James Risen The Intercept Jan 2018 1h5min Permalink
A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.
Jennifer Percy The New Republic Nov 2016 25min Permalink
A conversation with the former head of the NSA.
John Meroney Playboy Oct 2016 25min Permalink
Firefighter Kevin Shea, one of the first responders on September 11, 2001, was “the survivor who couldn’t remember what no one else could forget.”
David Grann New York Times Magazine Jan 2002 25min Permalink
A few months after working at Ground Zero, Kurt Sonnenfeld became a suspect in the mysterious and high-profile death of his wife. He got off, barely, and started a new life in South America. But when the U.S. tried to bring him back to face charges, Sonnenfeld went to the local media. The Feds didn’t want him for murder, he said. They wanted to put him away because of what he knew about 9/11.
Evan Hughes GQ Jun 2016 30min Permalink
The making of the drone.
Arthur Holland Michel Wired Dec 2015 20min Permalink
A couple tries to give away their house in Flint, Michigan – but no one wants to live there anymore.
Edward McClelland The Morning News Dec 1969 10min Permalink
The lonely death of a godfather of the conspiracy theory movement.
Matt Stroud The Verge Jul 2014 25min Permalink
A profile of Ken Feinberg, lawyer who specializes in determining compensation after tragedies and disasters.
James Oliphant National Journal Aug 2013 20min Permalink
A woman attempts to find her own closure following losses on 9/11.
"The Rumson police, the Little Silver police, the Middletown police especially insisted, they’d already had funerals of their own and knew what to expect. The roads were cordoned off from the Sea Bright Bridge to the Avenue of Two Rivers and cars parked for a mile all the way down Rumson Road, women in black sling-backs climbing the rutted grass along the road, made the shortcut through the tennis club across the school yard to the gray shingle church, capacity four hundred, someone said a thousand stood inside and out to hear Father Jim say no words could gather the force he needed to say his prayer, they would all join him in silence. Kathleen in the choir loft, alone, sang “Danny Boy” for her brother, for her father, and the thousand beyond prayer, beyond tears, shook and trembled now."
Mary-Beth Hughes A Public Space Jan 2009 20min Permalink
The old and the new in New York.
Colson Whitehead New York Times Magazine Nov 2011 10min Permalink
Scott Raab’s ongoing reports on the reconstruction at the World Trade Center site.
Scott Raab Esquire 3h50min Permalink
A first-person account of an arrest:
I stared at the yellow walls and listened to a few officers talk about the overtime they were racking up, and I decided that I hated country music. I hated speedboats and shitty beer in coozies and fat bellies and rednecks. I thought about Abu Ghraib and the horror to which those prisoners were exposed. I thought about my dad and his prescience. I was glad he wasn’t alive to know about what was happening to me. I thought about my kids, and what would have happened if they had been there when I got taken away. I contemplated never flying again. I thought about the incredible waste of taxpayer dollars in conducting an operation like this. I wondered what my rights were, if I had any at all. Mostly, I could not believe I was sitting in some jail cell in some cold, undisclosed building surrounded by “the authorities.”
Shoshana Hebshi Stories from the Heartland Sep 2011 15min Permalink
September 11, 2001:
“I felt like I was intruding on a sacrament,” said one firefighter, Maureen McArdle-Schulman. “They were choosing to die and I was watching them and shouldn’t have been, so me and another guy turned away and looked at the wall, and we could still hear them hit.”
David James Smith Daily Nation Sep 2011 15min Permalink
An interview with Rudy Giuliani’s fresh-out-of-college head speechwriter, who wrote the eulogies for every policeman and fireman who died on 9/11, giving him “the dark distinction of probably writing more eulogies than anyone else alive.”
Harry Siegel, John Avlon Village Voice Sep 2011 25min Permalink
An essay on the evolving narrative of martyrdom in the Islamist and secular worlds.
Christopher Watt Maisonneuve Sep 2011 10min Permalink
On the people who were working at Logan Airport when the hijacked flights departed:
They are the rarely noticed casualties of the terrorist attacks: the security guard, the ticket agent, the baggage handler on the ramp. They made it home that night, but with images they couldn’t shake, a pain uncomfortable to voice. They can’t believe it has been 10 years. They can’t believe it has only been 10 years.
Eric Moskowitz The Boston Globe Sep 2011 35min Permalink