Discontents

Rough seas over here

Featuring no hot takes on you know what

Mar 28, 2022 • 

Luke O'Neil

17

Asylum a la carte

Border Patrol agents were recently reminded they can exempt Ukrainian asylum seekers from expulsions at the border. Mexican and Central Americans…

Mar 21, 2022 • 

BORDER/LINES

20

1

You Can Go Home Again

This week's theme: coming back.

Mar 7, 2022 • 

Jack Mirkinson

13

1

February 2022

War machinery and beatdown journalism

Every story about a weapon describes a sufficiently advanced rock turning people into past tense

Feb 28, 2022 • 

Kelsey D. Atherton

10

Pennsylvania Man Arrested For Torture Official CIA Channels

The Justice Department really had the nerve to boast about indicting its second U.S. citizen under the 1994 federal torture statute. Plus: the latest…

Feb 22, 2022 • 

Spencer Ackerman

9

Like they're talking about the weather

In reality, the economy is a social construct

Feb 14, 2022 • 

Luke O'Neil

9

1

Scampering Robots, Are You The Destroyer?

The robotic hounds of the uncanny valley of the death undergo trials in El Paso.

Feb 7, 2022 • 

Kelsey D. Atherton

11

January 2022

I’m just on edge all the time

Hello everyone, Eoin Higgins here from The Flashpoint.

Jan 31, 2022 • 

Eoin Higgins

10

Havana (Syndrome) Affair

The CIA has now acknowledged that almost every declared case of "Havana Syndrome" has a natural, not science fiction, origin. Why did anybody ever think…

Jan 24, 2022 • 

Derek Davison

13

Who deserves to die?

It's much easier to demonize criminals than to examine inequality.

Jan 17, 2022 • 

Libby Watson

11

"It's Just Sort Of Taken As A Given That This Is The Way Things Are"

New year, same politics

Jan 10, 2022 • 

Eoin Higgins

10

December 2021

Our Year of Discontents

What this little community of journalists and readers means to me.

Dec 27, 2021 • 

Jack Crosbie

11