Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, the United States has not suffered another catastrophic terrorist strike, but conflating that record with the infallibility of the U.S. security apparatus would be a mistake. More.

Tim Casey returned to Ground Zero for the first time since the horrific attack on America in 2001 when fire, debris and steel girders rained down in and around him that Sept. 11. This time, though, he came not as a healthy worker from New Jersey headed to his office but as a cancer patient battling for his life and for promises made by the federal government to “Never Forget.” More.