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Mining the Matrix
A computer program has marked thousands of citizens as potential terrorists.
By Jim DeFede
September/October 2004 Issue

Red Alert
It was billed as America's frontline defense against terrorism. But badly underfunded, crippled by special interests, and ignored by the White House, the Department of Homeland Security has been relegated to bureaucratic obscurity.
By Matthew Brzezinski
September/October 2004 Issue

Nickel and Diming Homeland Security
Homeland Security spending compared with its Iraq equivalent. Don't you feel safer?
September/October 2004 Issue

Flight Risk
Under pressure from the airlines, federal managers are loosening airport security rules and compromising passenger safety.
By Michael Scherer
July/August 2004 Issue

The Security Traders
As Washington prepares to spend tens of billions of dollars on homeland security, companies are gearing up for the biggest government bonanza since the Cold War.
By Brendan I. Koerner
September/October 2002 Issue

Airline Insecurity
Federal regulators have known for years that the nation's system of airport security was "seriously flawed." But the FAA repeatedly placed politics and profits above the public's safety.
By Barry Yeoman & Bill Hogan
January/February 2002 Issue

Nuclear Denial
For two decades, the nuclear industry has ignored warnings that its reactors were vulnerable to terrorist acts-all while racking up an embarrassing record of security lapses.
By Susan Q. Stranahan
January/February 2002 Issue

A Biodefense Boondoggle
As pharmaceutical companies line up for multimillion-dollar contracts to make bioterrorism vaccines, some question whether the industry is up to the job.
By Bill Hogan
January/February 2002 Issue

Document Not Found
Government agencies scramble to take sensitive information off their web sites.
By Joni Praded
January/February 2002 Issue

The Fundamental John Ashcroft
Until Sept. 11, John Ashcroft seemed content to lie low as the Bush administration's ambassador to the right. But now the attorney general has been reborn-and rooting out terrorists is just the beginning.
By David Corn
March/April 2002 Issue

The Kean Mutiny
How the mild-mannered chairman of the 9/11 commission refused to be George W. Bush's patsy.
By Gail Sheehy
September/October 2004 Issue

The Lie Factory
Only weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration set up a secret Pentagon unit to create the case for invading Iraq. Here is the inside story of how they pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war.
By Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest
January/February 2004 Issue

Clueless in Langley
For two decades, the CIA has been making excuses for why it has failed to tackle terrorism. Can a spy agency rooted in the Cold War adapt to a changed world?
By Ted Gup
January/February 2002 Issue

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What happens when U.S. spies get the goods-- and the government won't listen?
By Ken Silverstein & David Isenberg
January/February 2002 Issue

Left Out In The Cold
Monte Overacre left the CIA. But he could never leave the Cold War.
By Robert Dreyfuss
January/February 1998 Issue

The Next Worst Thing Is the federal government's expansion of biodefense research paving the way for the bioweapons of the future?
By Michael Scherer
March/April 2004 Issue

Tearaway Burkas & Tinplate Menorahs
What happens when you throw together a liberal comedian, a flag-waving country star, two Redskins cheerleaders, three hip-hop divas, and thousands of war-weary troops? A rowdy, randy, all-American good time.
By Al Franken
March/April 2004 Issue

The Damage Done
It's easy to send soldiers off to war. It's a lot harder to face them when they come home.
Photo Essay and Interviews by Nina Berman
Text By Verlyn Klinkenborg
March/April 2004 Issue

Soldiers of Good Fortune
By Barry Yeoman
May/June 2003 Issue

No Child Unrecruited
Should the military be given the names of every high school student in America?
By David Goodman
November/December 2002 Issue

Breaking Ranks
More and more U.S. soldiers are speaking out against the war in Iraq -- and some are refusing to fight.
By David Goodman

Operation Hollywood
How the Pentagon bullies movie producers into showing the U.S. military in the best possible light.
David Robb Interviewed By Jeff Fleischer
September 20, 2004

The Military-Industrial Man
Even in an era of uncompetitive congressional races, one type of seat stands out as remarkably "safe".
By Chalmers Johnson
September 14, 2004

Good Soldiers and 'Bad Guys'
The horrors of Abu Ghraib should prompt something long overdue -- serious media scrutiny of the military's actions in Iraq.
By David Rieff
May 7, 2004

The Few, the Proud, the Indebted
Payday loan shops are drawing fire from the military's top brass.
By Paul Fain
May/June 2004 Issue

DARPA's Wild Kingdom
Weaponized bees, robotic rats, sleepless soldiers; does Mother Nature stand a chance in the face of the Pentagon's new science?
By Nick Turse
March 8, 2004

Baseworld: Americaís Military Colonialism
Those worried that America might be slinking towards imperialism miss the point: America already has an empire.
By Chalmers Johnson
January 20, 2004

Building a Better Bomb
Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars.
By Michael Scherer
May/June 2002 Issue

The Pentagon's 300-Billion-Dollar Bomb
The military is committed to stealth aircraft and may never buy another conventional plane. But amid all the hype, stealth's glaring flaws have evaded Washington's radar.
By Ken Silverstein and Jeff Moag
January/February 2000 Issue

Huntsville's Missile Payload
Pentagon money and Nazi rocket scientists turned a sleepy Alabama town into a defense contractor's paradise. Now President Bush is preparing to sink billions more into missile defense -- and give Huntsville its biggest boost ever.
By Ken Silverstein
July/August 2001 Issue

Recruiting the Class of 2005
Military programs have expanded into thousands of public high schools, signing up nearly half a million students. Is Junior ROTC building character -- or lining up soldiers?
By David Goodman
January/February 2002 Issue

High-Caliber Carnival
The Middle East market is stagnant; Asian sales are off; but flying down to Rio will boom your business -- if you're an international arms maker.
By Ken Silverstein
July/August 1999 Issue

First, The Bad News
The big daily newspapers get some things right. National defense isn't one of them.
By Scott Shuger
September/October 1998 Issue

Lasers, Surveillance, and Missiles, Oh My!
All the defense industry news that's too confusing to print
By Daniel G. Dupont
September/October 1998 Issue

Security Meltdown
By Ken Silverstein
November/December 1998 Issue

Heavy Metal
How does the defense industry arm itself against budget cuts? With the Pentagon's top brass.
By Ken Silverstein
November/December 1998 Issue

You're in the Army Now
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Military
By Heidi Li Feldman
November/December 1998 Issue

The Bomb Tribe
Facing post-cold war budget cuts, nuclear weapons designers told me last summer that morale was souring. but in October, the bomb design tribe won a stunning victory in the struggle it had never really abandoned--to create the next bomb.
By David Beers
March/April 1995 Issue

The Virtual Bomb
The Nuclear Ignition Facility will allow the U.S. to keep testing nuclear weapons--and perhaps undermine treaties on global arms proliferation. it's promoted as a path to clean, boundless fusion energy. but a prominent science writer explains why this claim is dubious.
By Keay Davidson
March/April 1995 Issue

Military ties
Why is the president letting conservative hawks hold his domestic agenda hostage to Pentagon spending fantasies?
By Eric Alterman
March/April 1994 Issue

All Dollars, No Sense
The Pentagon is eating away at our future security.
By Robert L. Borosage
September/October 1993 Issue

Trial By Fury
After the revelations about prisoner abuse and flimsy terrorism cases, is it time to reconsider the fate of John Walker Lindh?
By Susan Orenstein
November/December 2004 Issue

The Kean Mutiny
How the mild-mannered chairman of the 9/11 commission refused to be George W. Bush's patsy.
By Gail Sheehy
September/October 2004 Issue

The Wrong War
Backdraft: How the war in Iraq has fueled Al Qaeda and ignited its dream of global jihad.
By Peter Bergen
July/August 2004 Issue

One Liberty at a Time
From the cages at Guantanamo to a jail cell in Brooklyn, the administration isn't just threatening the rights of a few detaineesóit's undermining the very foundation of democracy.
By Anthony Lewis
May/June 2004 Issue

Murder, She Said
An ambush in Indonesia killed Patsy Spier's husbandñand landed her in the middle of a foreign-policy minefield.
By Tim Shorrock
March/April 2004 Issue

The Longest Arm of the Law "Superjudge" Baltasar GarzÛn, Spain's preeminent anti-terror prosecutor, has shown that no one is beyond the reach of the law. After the Madrid bombings, his skills are in greater demand than ever.
By Tim Golden
March/April 2004 Issue

Defender of the Free Word Librarian Trina Magi stands up to the Patriot Act.
By Rob Gurwitt
January/February 2004 Issue

Waiting for Gitmo
Inside Guantanamo, where some 660 detainees of questionable intelligence value await a judgment that may never come.
By Nicholas M. Horrock and Anwar Iqbal
January/February 2004 Issue

Business Blacklists The Bush administration is deputizing business to track terrorists -- but consumers are getting snared.
By Michael Scherer
May/June 2003 Issue

The Bad Guy
Gangbanger, fifth columnist, radical Muslim, poor fatherless Puerto Rican -- is it mere coincidence that in Jose Padilla the government has the perfect fall guy?
By Miles Harvey
March/April 2003 Issue

Living in an Age of Fire
After six of their own were accused of 'a conspiracy of silence,' the Yemenis of Lackawanna decided that speaking up is just as dangerous.
By JoAnn Wypijewski
March/April 2003 Issue

The Phantom Menace
Could terrorists attack the United States with weapons of mass destruction? Highly unlikely, say defense experts. So why is the Clinton administration spending billions to foil a most improbable threat?
By Robert Dreyfuss
September/October 2000 Issue

The Not-So-Public Enemy What would Usama bin Laden be doing in Montclair, New Jersey, anyway? By Ian Frazier
July/August 2001 Issue

Mining the Matrix
A computer program has marked thousands of citizens as potential terrorists.
By Jim DeFede
September/October 2004 Issue

The Watchful & the Wary
From FBI and CIA headquarters to small-town police departments, the government is building a massive intelligence network designed to spy on terrorists -- and on everyday Americans.
By Robert Dreyfuss
July/August 2003 Issue

A Face in the Crowd
Is surveillance software turning police into Robocops?
By Julie Wakefield
November/December 2001 Issue

Big Brother and the Bookie
How the feds turned top-secret spy technology against the son of a Mafia don -- and made a low-level wiseguy into a poster boy for the Fourth Amendment.
By George Anastasia
January/February 2002 Issue

Up Close and Personal
High-tech identification devices could produce reams of data on law-abiding citizens -- but may be useless in fighting terrorists.
By Brendan I. Koerner
January/February 2002 Issue