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 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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