Abolish the TSA
The agency has not made air travel safer but it has made it costlier and more time-consuming to fly.
Homeland security
Congress Passes Bill Backing 'Self-Care' for People Pursuing Prostitution Stings
The IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act would provide outreach and training to Homeland Security Investigations staff.
Impending Impeachment
Plus: a shaky bipartisan border deal, the looming Taylor Swift PSYOP, and the disappearance of the D.C. area's greatest landmark...
My Favorite Things (TSA Version)
A reined-in TSA would be the sound of music to many Americans' ears.
TSA's Biometric Screening May Not Be Optional for Long
Surveillance tech that isn't banned often becomes mandatory eventually.
Senators Ask DEA To Stop Buying Its Way Around Civil Liberties
Plus: Senate Republicans spar over TikTok and free speech, Americans can't agree on how to cut spending, and more...
Department of Homeland Security
DHS Just Turned 20. It's Time To Abolish It.
Break it up into fewer, smaller agencies that are more accountable to pre-9/11 departments.
The Department of Homeland Security Turns 20. Its Legacy Is Disastrous.
Surveilling American citizens without due process, separating undocumented children from their parents, the TSA—the DHS has been a failure.
The Fight Over the Debt Ceiling Is Just Beginning
Legislators will increasingly argue over how to spend a diminishing discretionary budget while overall spending simultaneously explodes.
Another Bogus 'Sex Trafficking Sting' Led by Homeland Security Agents
Plus: Everyone loves conspiracy theories, against national rent control, and more...
Real ID Enforcement Has Been Pushed Back. Again.
The Real ID Act was passed in 2005. 17 years later, it's worth asking if it's finally time to scrap the law.
Here's What the Media Get Wrong About Hurricanes
No, a big storm does not require big government.
Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment
Plus: The Respect for Marriage Act, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, and more...
The Department of Homeland Security Is Broken and Dangerous
The department suffers “a dangerous combination of broad authorities, weak safeguards, and insufficient oversight.”
Homeland Security Is Already Mobilizing Against Potential Protests by U.S. Truckers
Plus: The EARN It Act advances, against climate despair, and more...
DHS Keeps Crying Wolf About Domestic Extremists
Plus: Psychedelic decriminalization efforts, how cities throttle small businesses, and more…
After 20 Years of Failure, Kill the TSA
The agency is far more of a threat than the dangers from which it supposedly protects us.
We Lost Liberty After 9/11—COVID-19 Threatens More of the Same
History is repeating itself in ways that we, and our kids, will live to regret.
Homeland Security Says Americans Upset by 'Public Health Safety Measures' Could Be Terror Threats
The new advisory “is not based on any actual threats or plots” but is purely a response to a “rise in anti-government rhetoric.”
Overreacting To Domestic Terrorism Makes It Worse
Targeting “extremists” threatens civil liberties while increasing the stresses that lead to violence.
Americans Shouldn't Be Treated Like ISIS Insurgents
Adopting "counterinsurgency" tactics for use against wide swaths of Americans can only make the situation worse.
Don't Let the Capitol Riot Become an Excuse for Expanding Government Power
The federal government should prosecute those people who committed acts of vandalism or violence. However, we should be leery about giving the feds additional powers.
The Feds Are Still the Jackbooted Thugs We Were Warned About
Government agents brutalizing people are in the wrong, whether or not we sympathize with those on the receiving end.
ICE Agents Fight Sex Trafficking by Paying Potential Victims for Hand Jobs
In "Operation Asian Touch," federal agents coerced suspected human-trafficking victims into sex acts. Local cops seized money and threw them in jail.
House Moves To Give Homeland Security More Power To Snoop
Plus: Santa Cruz decriminalizes shrooms, the feds target medical marijuana in Michigan, "the growing threat to free speech online," and more...
The Department of Homeland Security Is a Mess of Misconduct and Ineptitude
Longstanding discipline problems at DHS provide a glimpse of what fans of bigger government on the right and left would inflict on us.
Another Multiracial Family Falsely Accused of Sex Trafficking While Flying
Plus: Juul targeted for smoking cessation claims, federal budget deficit tops $1 trillion, and more...
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Is Leaving Wednesday. Will Her Replacement Be Worse?: Reason Roundup
Plus: The U.K. wants to be "the safest place in the world to be online," and Mike Gravel is running for president.
Can DHS Shoot Down Citizen Drones? House Votes Today: Reason Roundup
Plus: why Gary Johnson will be good for the Senate, "toxic culture" at the TSA, the dismissal of an anti-FOSTA lawsuit, and a new economic freedom index.
TSA To Continue Fondling Travelers at Small Airports
No curtain calls for any security theater performances.
Will TSA Eliminate Security Checkpoints at Small Airports? If Only.
Fearmongering responses at the idea that the feds don't need to run everything
Super Bowl Sex Trafficking Myth Gives Good Cover for Federal Security Theater
Minneapolis is being transformed into a police state.
Department of Homeland Security
Eros.com Still Lives, But Homeland Security Raid Has Sex Workers Worried
The fate of the popular adult ad platform remains unclear after a raid on Eros' North Carolina servers.
Feds Keeping Homeland Secure with Fake Sex-Trafficking Busts
As America deals with terrorist attacks and mass shootings, DHS and the FBI are busy enforcing misdemeanor vice laws.
The TSA Turns Harassing Travelers Into a Fine—and Pointless—Art
Security officials who fail every test thrown their way, plan to inflict the punishment for those shortcomings on airline passengers.
DHS Head to America: Shut Up, Be Terrified, and Do What You're Told
Secretary John Kelly wants you to know that the problem is you, not them.
September 11: Remembering Lives and Liberties Lost 15 Years Ago
Fifteen years later, we really do have "nothing to fear but fear itself"
National Security Policy Is Just One Big Trolley Problem
Not everything can be a "top priority." We have to choose.
Teen Girl Sells Sex. Teen Boy Serves as Bodyguard. Teen Boy Gets Arrested by Homeland Security for Child Sex-Trafficking
If convicted, the boy-an 18-year-old homeless refugee from Ghana-faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison, with life imprisonment possible.
Feds Kill Yet Another Website That Makes Sex Work Safer
Five federal agencies and several California police departments worked for over a year to take down a site where sex workers advertised.
Homeland Security Helps Take Down Unlicensed Massage Therapists
So terrorism is solved, right?
Homeland Security, L.A. Police Team Up to Arrest Compton Sex Workers
But... but... these ladies were "human trafficking" themselves!
3 of the Most F*cked Up Ways the Feds are Controlling Sex Work
From telling hotel workers to look for used condoms to shuttering escort sites to nation-wide stings, cops are going after prostitutes with new energy.
Obama Could Still Stop 'Megan's Law' From Making Sex Offenders Get Special Passports
For the first time in U.S. history, some citizens may be singled out for scarlet letters on their passports.
Another Asian Air Traveler Detained Over Suspicions She's Being Sex Trafficked
"Flight Attendants and airline employees will be the 'boots in the air' fighting human trafficking," say federal officials.
