Twenty-two years after 9/11, the firefighters' courage endures as an intended legacy — but the expansion of an American police state and an irresponsible press threaten the freedoms those heroes died to defend.
Read moreA visit to the Flight 93 Memorial stirs reflections on the consonance and dissonance of September 11 — and the courage our country desperately needs today.
Read moreTwo decades after 9/11, the crystalline blue sky of that September morning remains seared in memory — a backdrop to senseless horror, uncommon courage, and a nation's reckoning with freedom's fragility.
Read moreA trip to Philadelphia to promote my book brought me back to the high-intensity rhythm of the East Coast — and to the graves of founding fathers who first pulled mental illness from the fringes.
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