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Tedium in the age of terror: 9/11, Martin Amis and the real legacy of Mohamed Atta.
By Patrick Smith Nov 14, 2008

  • More Mac Viruses, Similar Sources: Time to Worry?

    By Darrell Etherington January 26, 2009

  • Ask the pilot

    Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?
    By Patrick Smith July 11, 2008

  • Ask the pilot

    When pilots carry guns. Plus: Airport security and yet more TSA brainteasers.
    By Patrick Smith March 28, 2008

  • A rocky Windows trek for Apple's Safari browser

    Flaws in the license, flaws in the code.
    By Farhad Manjoo March 27, 2008

  • Pakistan's censors crash YouTube for everyone

    It looks like a mistake, but it's chilling anyway.
    By Farhad Manjoo February 25, 2008

  • Ask the pilot

    As if long delays and security lines weren't enough to worry about during Thanksgiving travel, now we have to add running out of fuel to the list?
    By Patrick Smith November 22, 2007

  • Attackers aim at Apple with first Mac Trojan horse

    Mac users, it's time to stop being so smug about your machine's perfect safety record.
    By Farhad Manjoo November 2, 2007

  • Ask the pilot

    Has the U.S. met its match in airport-security craziness? Plus: NASA's pilot survey coverup.
    By Patrick Smith November 2, 2007

  • Taking off your bra for national security

    Is underwire really a lethal weapon? Airport security apparently thinks so.
    By Carol Lloyd October 18, 2007

  • Ask the Pilot

    What have we come to when foreign airlines tout around-the-world travel that avoids the U.S.? Plus: Make your own airline route maps. And: Wizz Air?
    By Patrick Smith August 10, 2007

  • Apple fixes hacked iPhones, Macs

    Just before researchers were to document the flaw that allowed attackers to take over Apple's phone, the company fixed it.
    By Farhad Manjoo August 1, 2007

  • "Tom DeLay": The safest keyword on the Web?

    Security company McAfee says "bearshare" is the world's most dangerous search term. The former congressman from Texas, meanwhile, will do you no harm.
    By Farhad Manjoo June 4, 2007

  • Guns on a plane

    The way to stop terrorists on planes is to encourage passengers to bring loaded firearms aboard. Where's the NRA when you need 'em?
    By Garrison Keillor September 13, 2006

  • Ask the pilot

    Why have the airlines, who have the most to lose, been silent as flying becomes an increasingly squalid and unpleasant experience?
    By Patrick Smith September 8, 2006

  • Our magnificent isolation

    It's hard for Americans to visualize our country's collapse. If the president turns out to be a shallow fool, we still expect to survive it.
    By Garrison Keillor September 6, 2006

  • Baghdad: The besieged press

    Holed up in fortified compounds, at constant risk of death when they venture out, reporters in Iraq are increasingly cut off from the hideous reality outside.
    By Orville Schell March 16, 2006

  • The yes man and the thug

    In his disturbing new book, Times reporter James Risen reveals how George Tenet's gutless surrender to war-obsessed Donald Rumsfeld led to the total breakdown of U.S. intelligence.
    By Farhad Manjoo January 10, 2006

  • Identity crisis

    Congress just passed an act requiring Americans to carry a national I.D. card. Forget the Big Brother concerns -- security experts say terrorists will figure out how to get them, and warn that your DMV experience will become even more hellish.
    By Farhad Manjoo May 14, 2005

  • How George Bush bankrupted the war on terror

    Are we safer after invading Iraq? No. Would we be safer if we'd spent the hundreds of billions the war has cost on improving our own security at home? Yes.
    By Farhad Manjoo September 11, 2004

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The Olympics haven't officially started, but they've started. Plus: Everybody out of the stadium! And: An interstate home run.
    August 11, 2004
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