DRONES Arms manufacturer sponsors new opera about the horrors of drone warfare at the Kennedy Center Thom Dunn
defense contractors Game-making app company Unity expands role as U.S. defense contractor Rob Beschizza
climate change The wealthiest countries spend twice as much on border security as climate change Thom Dunn
Science Former U.S. Intelligence official says the U.S. possesses craft of non-human origin Ruben Bolling
police New Pentagon IG report finds that police don't need all those hand-me-downs of military hardware Thom Dunn
politics Biden could save U.S. taxpayers $2.6 billion by halting Trump's stupid border wall on January 20, says Army Corps Xeni Jardin
peter thiel Peter Thiel's dystopian cyberpunk business Palantir bombed its Initial Public Offering Thom Dunn
graft Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor Mark Frauenfelder
police Police militarization is objectively bad for police and for society, according to science Thom Dunn
coronavirus Trump has been hesitant to invoke the Defense Production Act for medical gear. But he's already used it hundreds of thousands of times for weapons and bombs. Thom Dunn
corruption Defense contractors gleefully report record earnings in divisions that bid on "classified" projects, the fastest-growing part of the Pentagon's budget Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's plan for traffic deaths from same-day delivery: deflect blame to anonymous subcontractors Cory Doctorow
elections Elizabeth Warren calls for a zero-emissions military, serviced by zero-emissions contractors Cory Doctorow
corruption Matt Taibbi finally makes sense of the Pentagon's trillions in off-books "budgetary irregularities" Cory Doctorow
