When did we become such a nation of scaredy-cats?
By Patrick Smith Jan 21, 2010
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Why the "it-isn't-looting-if-you're-starving" argument is particularly lame
By Heather Michon
January 19, 2010
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By Darrell Etherington
January 27, 2009
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Tedium in the age of terror: 9/11, Martin Amis and the real legacy of Mohamed Atta.
By Patrick Smith
November 14, 2008
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They get a 9 for pomp and spectacle, but only a 3 for furthering world understanding and a 2 for the fan experience.
By John Krich
August 25, 2008
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By Darrell Etherington
January 26, 2009
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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
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Flying isn't much fun, but for now people keep doing it anyway. What can the airlines do to keep their customers happy?
By Patrick Smith
June 27, 2008
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Nearly half of the ladies surveyed were willing to give up their passwords in return for candy.
By Farhad Manjoo
April 17, 2008
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When pilots carry guns. Plus: Airport security and yet more TSA brainteasers.
By Patrick Smith
March 28, 2008
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Flaws in the license, flaws in the code.
By Farhad Manjoo
March 27, 2008
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It looks like a mistake, but it's chilling anyway.
By Farhad Manjoo
February 25, 2008
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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
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Mac users, it's time to stop being so smug about your machine's perfect safety record.
By Farhad Manjoo
November 2, 2007
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Has the U.S. met its match in airport-security craziness? Plus: NASA's pilot survey coverup.
By Patrick Smith
November 2, 2007
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Is underwire really a lethal weapon? Airport security apparently thinks so.
By Carol Lloyd
October 18, 2007
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Emergency doors, karaoke bombers and other false alarms
Gently Used iPod for Sale, Comes Complete With Military Secrets
Ask the pilot
Scoring the Beijing Olympics
Ask the pilot
Survey: Women looser with their passwords than men
Taking off your bra for national security
Guns on a plane
Ask the pilot
Our magnificent isolation
Baghdad: The besieged press
The yes man and the thug
Identity crisis
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