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9/11 in New York: Looking back and forward
It was one of those mornings one could feel springtime approaching. I was at home, enjoying an atypical Tuesday morning of my senior year in high school, reading in the backyard. The phone rang. “Are you ok?” my mom asked on the other end of the line. She was shocked...
18 years after 9/11, the war continues
“Jules, this is Brian — listen,” Brian Sweeney told his wife Julie Sweeney Roth on Sept. 11, 2001. “I’m on an airplane that’s been hijacked.
Nuclear Weapons Treaty, the unfulfilled Promise
Abolishing nuclear weapons may seem like an idealistic, even utopian objective. But so too did banning land mines. And chemical and biological weapons. These were banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997 after they proved to be barbaric and treated as illegal...
Predictable tragedies and how (not to) prevent them
"I hope you all feel safe while visiting the United States," said a woman who works at the Minnesota State Fair during a discussion with WPI journalists on gun violence in the country. "When I was in Ghana, I saw the news on TV about shootings in the [United States]...