The writer Laila Lalami is originally from Morocco. She moved to California as a grad student. She thought when she finished school, she'd go home. But then she fell in love with — and married — an ...

An authoritative history of post 9/11 America has not yet been written. We may be too close to the events of that day — and the weeks and years after — to see it clearly. But that is, in part, the ...