September 11, 2001 Attacks

Deployment to war doesn't figure in majority of military suicides

2013-06-15 16:22:00

Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. But what he really wanted was to go to war. In 2008, as the U.S. death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan approached 5,000, Evans became a...

White House says 'scope and scale' of aid to Syrian rebels may grow

2013-06-16 11:23:00

WASHINGTON — White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that “the scope and scale” of assistance to Syrian rebels will expand, based on evidence that the Assad government is gaining ground in the protracted civil war and that...

NSA leaks: Privacy in the Facebook age

2013-06-15 00:00:00

Last Sunday, a few days after news broke that the National Security Agency was running a massive electronic surveillance program, The Times published a letter from Arcadia resident David Strauss implying that the Facebook generation had this coming. "[...

Stay calm and let the NSA carry on

2013-06-09 00:00:00

After 9/11, there was a widespread expectation of many more terrorist attacks on the United States. So far that hasn't happened. We haven't escaped entirely unscathed (see Boston Marathon, bombing of), but on the whole we have been a lot safer than most...

McManus: Head-in-the-sand Congress

2013-06-12 00:00:00

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) , a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...

Snowden's leak of NSA secrets reveals deeper problem

2013-06-11 18:23:00

Please. Let's stop focusing on the overpaid, tormented young man who last week revealed the National Security Agency's Power Point Plan for Total Electronic World Domination. Let's focus instead on what our nation's wiretapping agency has actually...

Attacking Edward Snowden misses the bigger problem

2013-06-11 16:23:00

Please. Let’s stop focusing on the overpaid, tormented young man who last week revealed the National Security Administration’s Power Point Plan for Total Electronic World Domination. Let’s focus instead on what our nation’s...

Floyd Abrams, America's free speaker

2013-06-12 00:00:00

Where there's smoke arising from a free-speech matter, you're likely to find the fiery attorney Floyd Abrams. He's blazed a trail for freedom of the press from the Pentagon Papers case to protecting reporters' sources. He's just as incendiary when he's...

Edward Snowden: Hero or criminal?

2013-06-11 00:00:00

Over the weekend, as Americans were still absorbing double-barreled revelations about the extent of the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance, the source of that information outed himself. Edward J. Snowden, a 29-year-old former employee of a...

L.A.'s supervisors are still breaking the law

2013-06-10 08:40:00

Our editorial page counterparts at the Daily News and its sibling publications around the county took off after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Sunday for trying to change the law to make it OK for them to have closed-door meetings with the...

Review: In 'Stepping High,' life's answers are found on the dance floor

2013-06-13 15:10:00

At 32, Sima (Palmer Davis) is ready to grow up. In "Stepping High," that doesn't mean moving out of her conservative Iranian American parents' house, or even introducing them to her white boyfriend. It just means finally pausing her dreams of being a...

How shows like 'Mad Men,' 'Vikings' deal with less progressive pasts

2013-06-13 09:30:00

When Ato Essandoh was offered the role of an African American doctor in Civil War-era New York City for BBC America's "Copper," he almost did a double-take. "My first thing was I had to look it up," he says. "Lots of people didn't really think there could...

Senator Bob Graham is the former two-term governor of Florida and served for 18 years in the United States Senate. This is combined with 12 years in the Florida legislature for a total of 38 years of public service.

2013-06-11 07:40:00

People are reflected while peering into the 9/11 Museum, still under construction, as One World Trade Center (TOP L), now the tallest building in the United States, continues to be constructed in New York City.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Bernard was an influential figure in the field of group psychotherapy, with offices in Manhattan and Westport. He wrote six books and numerous articles.

2013-05-11 17:53:33