Satirical newspaper The Onion, back then mainly a print publication, had just moved to New York and was ready to publish its first issue there, when 9/11 happened. A fantastic piece on how the editors struggled to find a voice of humor amid what has been called «the death of irony».

Bonus track (in German): «Ich glaube, dass 9/11 der Tag war, an dem das Graue starb» – ein grossartiger Text, der die Zäsur durch 9/11 so gut einordnet wie kaum ein Text zuvor.

This stuck in my mind: «Everyone should have a museum dedicated to the worst day of their life and be forced to attend it with a bunch of tourists.» A very personal account of a visit to the new «9/11 Memorial Museum», by a man who lost his sister in the attacks.

Written in the frenzied, emotional days after 9/11, the «Authorization for the Use of Military Force» was intended to give President Bush the ability to retaliate against whoever orchestrated the attacks. But more than 12 years later, this one broadly-phrased sentence remains the primary legal justification for nearly every covert operation around the world. Buzzfeed has a brilliant longread on how that sentence came to be, the one woman who voted against it and what it’s since come to mean.

As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 is drawing closer, it’s a good time to refresh our memories of that defining event of recent history. Archive.org has compiled an absolutely stunning archive of TV news coverage of that very day and the week that followed. 3,000 hours of international TV News from 20 channels over 7 days.