Americans are commemorating 9/11 with mournful ceremonies, volunteering, appeals to “never forget” and rising attention to the terror attacks’ extended toll on responders.
The authors say that President Donald Trump's decision to call off a strike on Iran at the last minute may have been the right one. But years of research on valuing human lives, conducted by us and many others, make a compelling case that deciding what is proportional based on gut feelings is a profound mistake.
By Paul Slovic, University of Oregon and Amichai Cohen, Ono Academic College
At 10 o’clock on the morning of June 4, 1942, the Japanese were winning the Pacific War; an hour later, three Japanese aircraft carriers were on fire and sinking.
A series of auctions involving some 2,000 artifacts and mementoes owned by Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, begins Thursday and runs through November 2019.