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A Pentagon Memo Called It an "Arms Race." That Was the Point.

Charlie McGonigal Is in Prison. Almost No One Else Is.

Bribery Has Two Ends. Trump Holds Both.

Reductio ad Duginum

You Are Here

Lawful Targets

Nothing Draws a Crowd Like the End of the World

The Honest Curator

Five Stars, Five Draft Deferments

Foreign Hackers Hit America's Water. Trump Blamed a Democratic Governor. CISA Is Cutting Its Experts' Pay.

The Incompetence Defense

The Impostor Got Verified. The Founder Couldn't.

North Korea Is Hiring

"Having Birth": What Florida's New Security Law Is Actually For

Speed Kills

Paid, Hidden, and Legal: Covert Political Sponsorship Between FARA and the FEC

Tom Kean Jr.'s X account is still posting. He hasn't been seen since March.

Cuba's Finished

They Hired Me, Hazed Me, and Fired Me by Mail

EXCLUSIVE: Where the West's Cyber Chiefs Land, and Who Pays for the Landing

EXCLUSIVE: The Architecture of Erasure

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Altman’s Sibling Is Taking Him to Trial

EXCLUSIVE: The Sanctions Delisting They Hoped We’d Miss

Designed to Spread: The Iran War and the Limits of Official Narrative

Just a Haircut

Your Eyes Are Lying to You. I Can Prove It.

DOGE Has the Draft List

The Industry That Fights Governments for a Living Won't Fight This One

The Ratchet: How Non-Linear Warfare Turns Trauma Into Infrastructure

Lumen’s Quiet Veto on DMCA Abuse Investigations

Trump Pardon Buries FBI’s Secret Work for Putin’s Oligarchs

The $3.5 million pardon (and why I took this story to London)

Media Appearances

The Strange Case of ICE at the Winter Olympics

When Psychosis Meets the Algorithm

Anatomy of a Modern Phishing Attack

They're Coming for the UN

The Psychological Costs of America’s Exit

America Exits 66 International Organizations

Lockbox: Sovereign Credential Management on Solana

The QAnon Playbook: Inside Mike Flynn's War on Reality