Latest articles by David W. Brown
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Does America really need a Space Force?
The Explainer Trump wants to militarize space. What would that even look like?
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Donald Trump's $10 trillion climate mistake
opinion Trump and his fellow climate change skeptics claim that the science is unsettled while simultaneously proposing to end studies that would settle it. This will cost us — big league.
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The odyssey of OSIRIS-REx
feature Inside mankind's 1.35 billion kilometer mission to kiss an asteroid that might destroy us
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How Alexander Hamilton solved America's gun problem — 228 years ago
opinion The case for well-regulated militias
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Here's the latest travesty of secrecy from the NSA
opinion The NSA is refusing to release its own ethical and legal guidelines, calling them "top secret." This is alarming.
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How U.S. government employees blew $150 million renting little palaces for themselves in Afghanistan
The Explainer Surprise, surprise: It's the same dopes who blew $43 million on a gas station
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Why I'm suing the State Department over Hillary Clinton's email scandal
opinion The State Department will let you keep classified documents — they'll even install a safe for you to protect them. But only if your client's name is Clinton.
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The scientists who conquered Pluto
feature The global response to New Horizons is more than a celebration of one mission; it's the celebration of science
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Believe it or not, we are living in a golden age of space exploration
feature The feat of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft should stand alongside the taming of the oceans and the first flight of the Wright Brothers
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The amazing triumph of Windows 8
feature Eat your heart out, Apple: Windows 8 is a vision of computing that is not only thoroughly re-imagined, but in many ways superior to anything else out there
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The CIA's shark-jumping censorship of former agents
feature Ex-intel officials are required to submit speeches, book reviews, essays, and movie scripts to be scrubbed of classified material. And often, the censors go overboard
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Drone warfare... in the Philippines?
feature A New York Times report on a secret U.S. missile strike threatens to damage America's relationship with a key ally
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The secret labs where America's most futuristic weapons are built
feature These days, conflicts aren't necessarily fought by gun-wielding soldiers, but instead by stealthy computer viruses and complex code-breaking computers
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The real dangers of the Secret Service prostitution scandal
feature The salacious controversy revealed U.S. agents' startling weakness, and let America's enemies in on key information that could be used against us
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How Google fights China on America's behalf
feature While cybersecurity legislation languishes in congressional committees, the search king mounts a full-frontal assault on Chinese hackers
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If Israel bombs Iran: Forecasting the next 24 hours
feature Absent total war, the day after an Israeli attack on Iran would see a flurry of conventional spycraft, cyber-snooping, and frantic diplomacy
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Inside the secret world of America's top eavesdropping spies
feature Officially, the Special Collection Service doesn't exist. Unofficially, its snoops travel the world intercepting private messages and cracking high-tech encryptions
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You've been designated a foreign terrorist organization. Now what?
feature The U.S. officially labels members of the Haqqani network terrorists. Don't expect that to turn the tide in Afghanistan
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The stupidity of how the U.S. government classifies secrets
feature In the name of national security, the feds spend $11 billion a year classifying things as secrets that often aren't really secrets at all
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Kim Jong Un's less responsible, Disney-obsessed older brother
feature This black sheep of the family once tried to pass himself off as a Dominican named Pang Xiong
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Why the world is preparing for war in Mali
feature Regional volatility, imported weapons from Libya, and a poisonous religious ideology have turned the West African nation into a new Afghanistan
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The irresponsibly stupid and dangerous camouflage patterns of the U.S. military
feature You'd think the military would want uniform patterns that keep its members safe. And yet somehow, "distinctiveness" has trumped safety
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Cyber is a fraudulent weapon in a nonexistent war
feature Corporate fearmongers are eager to make a fortune from the phony threat of cyber-terror
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INTERVIEW: Robert Greenwald's war on drones
feature In Pakistan, "people are angry, upset, hurting, grieving. This is not something that makes sense either morally or from a national security point of view."
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