September 8, 2011: Morning
- Proxy war fought by U.S. backed warlords in Somalia, helped create militant Islamist threat.
- Beyond refugee camps, a life of dignified exile avoids double-victimization.
- Images of the wildfires that have devastated central Texas this week.
- Comparing the acreage destroyed by this season's Texas wildfires: The damage would stretch from NYC to Philadelphia.
- There was a car outside my apartment block that got a few parking tickets in the days after 9/11. Eventually it started to get flowers.
- An oral historian began her project on 9/12, asking what people did with what happened.
- Sports don't heal, but they give us protection so we can heal ourselves.
- China's rich emigrants look for safe harbors to moor their wealth and invest—anywhere but China.
- With a United States of Europe increasingly likely, the battle for Europe's soul begins.
- Analyzing Brevik's manifesto reveals wide alliance of anti-Islamists, rooted in democratic far-right.
- Influencers explain marketing cool to students eager to engineer pop culture for commercial gain.
- Dutch government reverts to fax following Iranian hack, reveals essential need to anchor e-communications.
- With brains making decisions before the conscious mind, philosophy wrestles neuroscience.