25 Years: Where Has 9/11 Gone?

The security state we never turned off

Built as a response to 9/11, America's security apparatus has become a rabid beast

Twenty-five years of “temporary”: how 9/11 built a surveillance state Americans never voted for

The towers fell in a single morning, but the government that rose from the rubble never stopped growing. A quarter-century after September 11, 2001, the emergency measures that the federal government swore were only temporary have calcified into a permanent architecture -- an alphabet soup of agencies, a legal doctrine of pre-emption, and a surveillance apparatus so pervasive that privacy has become less a right than a nostalgic memory. What beg…

9/11 was 25 years ago, but the emergency never ended

"Powers and institutions created for an extraordinary moment became part of ordinary government."

25 Years: Where Has 9/11 Gone?

Twenty-five years ago today, at the minute this post goes live, American Airlines Flight 11 struck t