air travel Lost or forgot your ID on the day you have to fly? Watch this TSA staffer's video on what to do Mark Frauenfelder

tsa What happens when you forget you have a gun in your carry-on Rob Beschizza

smuggler's blues Airline passenger attempted to smuggle bag of meth inside a breakfast burrito David Pescovitz

security theatre "Brutally honest" airport security announcement Andrea James

bullshit policies How the coronavirus response reveals the arbitrary bullshit of so many US policies Thom Dunn

stop resisting my hand with your groinh Woman says TSA officer groped and threatened her during a groin search Mark Frauenfelder

sexual assault TSA officer arrested for coercing a woman into showing her breasts Mark Frauenfelder

Musical instruments US Customs destroys the instrument of renowned Mali musician Ballaké Sissoko Gareth Branwyn

tsa TSA officer grabbed Native American woman's braids, snapped them and said "Giddy up!" Mark Frauenfelder

bob hope airport Woman whose vulva was probed by Burbank TSA "officers" who ignored her refusal sues Cory Doctorow

tsa TSA confiscated this toilet paper roller shaped like a gun Xeni Jardin

REAL ID US to require air travelers to show 'gold star' at airports in order to fly Xeni Jardin

false equivalences The TSA strip searched a grandmother on Mother's Day and now says that she's overreacting because it's no different from a locker room Cory Doctorow

adventures Toddler jumps on airport conveyor belt, is conveyed to bag room Rob Beschizza

happy mother's day A grandmother is suing the TSA for strip searching her to get a look at her panty liner, on Mother's Day Cory Doctorow

profiling TSA admits that its pornoscanners flag Black women and others with curly hair for humiliating, invasive searches Cory Doctorow

nope TSA finds military rocket-propelled grenade launcher in Florida man's luggage Xeni Jardin

shutdown More than 1,000 TSA workers still waiting for their paycheck after Trump government shutdown Xeni Jardin

medieval walls vs modern aviation Trump's shutdown: LaGuardia shut, Philadelphia and Newark airports limping Cory Doctorow

musical interludes TSA agents, unpaid for 30 days, are blasting explicit hip-hop in airport terminals Cory Doctorow