David W. Brown

Contributing Writer

David W. Brown is coauthor of Deep State (John Wiley & Sons, 2013) and The Command (Wiley, 2012). He is a regular contributor to TheWeek.com, Vox, The Atlantic, and mental_floss. He can be found online here.

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Feature

6 big questions about Trump's Space Force

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Analysis

Does America really need a Space Force?

A NASA Earth Observatory infrared image of the Earth from space.

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Opinion

Donald Trump's $10 trillion climate mistake

Artist concept of OSIRIS-REx at asteroid Bennu.

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Feature

The odyssey of OSIRIS-REx

Militia assemble during the American Revolution.

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Opinion

How Alexander Hamilton solved America's gun problem — 228 years ago

The NSA is being secretive about the most unusual aspects of the organization.

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Opinion

Here's the latest travesty of secrecy from the NSA

American tax dollars went toward lavish housing for U.S. government employees in Afghanistan.

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Analysis

How U.S. government employees blew $150 million renting little palaces for themselves in Afghanistan

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Opinion

Why I'm suing the State Department over Hillary Clinton's email scandal

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Feature

The scientists who conquered Pluto

An artist rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft

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Feature

Believe it or not, we are living in a golden age of space exploration

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The Bullpen

Syria's PR campaign failed — and so did America's policy

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Feature

INTERVIEW: War on Whistleblowers' director Robert Greenwald

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The Bullpen

How Hamas' rockets and Israel's missile-defense system work

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The Bullpen

If Israel bombs Iran: Forecasting the next 24 hours

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The Bullpen

Why the world is preparing for war in Mali

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The Bullpen

Obama is right to oppose new sanctions on Iran

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Feature

Matt Bell on readerly impulse, tastemakers, and the gatekeepers of publishing

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The Bullpen

The CIA's shark-jumping censorship of former agents

A memorial for the three people killed at the Boston Marathon.

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The Bullpen

Boston is a tragedy, but it's not your tragedy

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The Bullpen

Inside the secret world of America's top eavesdropping spies

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The Bullpen

America's embarrassingly redundant and entangled cyber security complex

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Feature

This lawsuit could destroy FOIA

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System on the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in May. The Navy plans to have unmanned aircraft on each of its carriers to be used for surveillance and be ar

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Feature

INTERVIEW: Robert Greenwald's war on drones

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Feature

What Iraq's chaos tells us about Afghanistan's coming spiral of drug-fueled violence and despair

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The Bullpen

How our love of gadgets makes us hate each other

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The Bullpen

The amazing triumph of Windows 8

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The Bullpen

The real dangers of the Secret Service prostitution scandal

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The Bullpen

Why women soldiers don't belong on the front lines

Classified information lies on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

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Feature

The government's ludicrous obsession with secrecy

U.S. Special Operations forces are seen through a vision night scope in Afghanistan, Dec. 11, 2011.

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Feature

10 things you didn't know about the president's secret army

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The Bullpen

Cyber is a fraudulent weapon in a nonexistent war

"If there's people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, then we'll take them out of the game, I suppose."

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Analysis

In praise of Prince Harry, soldier

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The Bullpen

The perks and perils of our newly indexed society

Gen. David Petraeus' old uniform, which was the upgraded "MultiCam" pattern.

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Feature

The irresponsibly stupid and dangerous camouflage patterns of the U.S. military

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The Bullpen

Why the CIA should get out of the killing business. Again.

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The Bullpen

How Microsoft is failing Windows 8