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News Abroad

Richard Brookhiser: What Would the Founders Do About Terrorism?

Godfrey Hodgson: We'd Be Better Off If Our Foreign Policy Was Less Woodrow Wilson and More Colonel House

Ruth Rosen: Oliver Stone, 9/11, and the Big Lie

Margaret C. Jacob: Thoughts on the Impossibility of Being both Deeply Religious and Cosmopolitan

Mark Kingwell: The Empire State Building's New Meaning Since 9/11

Interview with Timothy R. Furnish

James Castagnera: Osama bin Laden Is Our Sci-Fi Nightmare

A.O. Scott: Pinned Under the Weight of Skyscrapers and History in World Trade Center

Brian M. Carney: The conspiracy-minded Oliver Stone curiously couldn't find a conspiracy in 9/11 even though there was one

Evan Thomas and Andrew Romano: How American Myths (like 9-11) Are Made