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Eight years ago, on a sunny Tuesday September morning in New York City and Washington, DC, a sickeningly well-orchestrated terrorist attack took flight, in part, from Boston’s Logan International Airport. To say it was a chilling, disturbing, or horrific day is a vast understatement. One might also argue that it was the day that launched so many of the current problems we face, from seemingly endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to an economic crisis that has vastly changed the American landscape, psyche, and even self-identity. Yes, it was a blow to our ego and our sense of security, but it also changed who we are. In that way, it was — these words pain us to type — a successful blow against an empire.
It’s difficult to recall how we felt, collectively, in what now seems like a shockingly more naive state, just less than a decade ago. To remind ourselves, the Phoenix has compiled our extensive in-paper and online-only coverage into this central site.
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- Afghanistan: Just say no!
The idea that the war in Afghanistan has reached a critical junction, a “now-or-never” moment that requires an additional 40,000 troops to win, is rubbish.
- Feel-good movie of the summer
With the upcoming November elections poised to determine the future of Congress, what better gift could Republicans ask for than a popular Hollywood movie that conjures the image that for five years has granted them power and impunity? Watch the trailer for World Trade Center (QuickTime) Off-Center: Oliver Stone's trite take on 9/11. By Peter Keough
- Kennedy vs. the Catholic Church
Last week, Congressman Patrick Kennedy took the Catholic Church to task for opposing health reform that fails to include an explicit ban on federal funding for abortion. And he was right to do it.
- The pain hits home
With unsuccessful wars running in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the worst economic crisis in almost 80 years likely to get worse long before it gets better, Barack Obama will face challenges of historic proportions when he becomes the nation's 44th president next week.
- SpeakEasy's The New Century, Cabaret at New Rep
The New Century , a quartet of related short plays by Paul Rudnick, takes its name from the discount department store Century 21.
- Obama explained
If Obama's inaugural address set a new tone, his speech to Congress drew a new map.
- Propping up a puppet
"If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer," Yogi Berra once said. President Obama should do the same.
- Culture wars
American anthropologist Paula Loyd was in Afghanistan, discussing living costs with a local man when suddenly he doused her with fuel from a jug he was carrying and set her on fire.
- The way they tell stories
Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly's documentary The Way We Get By has its official Maine premiere in Orono this weekend with an unusual amount of fanfare.
- C.J. Chivers's real journalism
Phillipe and Jorge were absolutely stunned by the astounding and chilling story on the front page of the April 20 Urinal
- Robert McNamara, RIP
As secretary of defense under President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara prosecuted the Vietnam War on a day-to-day basis, just as Donald Rumsfeld orchestrated the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for George W. Bush.
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