The apocalyptic humiliation of 9/11 has shown us just what the al-Qaida leader could goad a triumphalist Washington into.

The root causes of the conflicts are the same as elsewhere: environmental destruction, joblessness, war.

We have our precision weaponry, and terrorist groups have theirs.

The philosopher argues that responding to extremist terror with a “sledgehammer” may only serve to perpetuate a deadly cycle in which our values and principles are also trampled.

Until America plunged into Iraq in 2003, there hadn't been such an upset of power in the Middle East since World War I.

Jeb and other candidates would have you believe that while the invasion was based on faulty intelligence, it had everyone's support. But that's false: 156 members of Congress opposed war authorization.

Paul Wolfowitz not only championed the Iraq War — he obsessively promoted a bizarre conspiracy theory.

A cartoonist writes that "free speech is clearly both a gift and a right, and a terror attack like this is a huge motivation to wield that speech more effectively and powerfully."

Amid continual headlines of terror plots, we have been relegated to the role of so many frightened spectators when it comes to our government and its actions.

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...