9/11/01: The Day the World Got a New Calendar By the time the second plane hit, foreign newsrooms had already stopped pretending it was an accident. In London, editors watched the feed with the grim satisfaction of people who’d warned the Americans for decades that their skyscrapers were basically vertical bullseyes. In Moscow, vodka glasses…
The Day the Sky Fell: How September 11 Gifted the World a New Brand of Chaos By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Over the Atlantic Everyone remembers where they were, or so the cliché insists. I was in a Nairobi newsroom watching a fuzzy CRT feed as the second plane performed its murderous…
**The Day the World Got a Passport Stamp It Never Asked For** Twenty-three years on, and September 11th has become something of a grim annual festival—like Christmas, but with more crying and fewer presents. The planet’s collective trauma has matured into a fine vintage of paranoia, served chilled at every international airport security checkpoint from…
