Threats
Parts of the US Are Trying to Reopen Too Early
What will happen now that some Americans seem unwilling to wait for sufficient testing?
Ideas
The US Army Is Racing to Build Makeshift Coronavirus Hospitals
The Corps of Engineers is converting dozens of American hotels and convention centers. Can it do it fast enough?
Ideas
The Vermont National Guard’s Great Experiment
A few weeks ago, the state's Guardsmen got an impossible assignment. And then they pulled it off.
Ideas
A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s Coronavirus Numbers Are Flat
Few figures tell you anything useful about how COVID-19 has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.
Policy
Congress Hears Options—And Concerns—for Using Smartphone Data to Fight Coronavirus
Other countries have been using various forms of location- and proximity-tracing to slow the spread of the disease, with widely varying levels of privacy protections.
Ideas
Ep. 65: Preparing for the next coronavirus
Three things that could help better protect us ahead of the next coronavirus-like pandemic.
Ideas
The Trump Administration Drove Him Back to China, Where He Invented a Fast Coronavirus Test
A federal crackdown on professors’ undisclosed outside activities is achieving what China has long struggled to do: spur Chinese scientists to return home. In this crisis, it’s costing the U.S. intellectual firepower.
Business
Defense Contractors Can Go To Work Amid State & Local Lockdowns, Pentagon Says
Companies in California have been struggling to navigate statewide orders to stay at home.
Threats
The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing
“I don’t know what went wrong,” a former CDC chief told The Atlantic.
Policy
Judge: Acting Immigration Services Director Was Unlawfully Appointed
Ken Cuccinelli — also acting DHS secretary — was named acting head of USCIS without having first served in a subordinate position.
Threats
Missteps at CDC Set Back US Ability to Detect Coronavirus' Spread
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designed a flawed test for COVID-19, then took weeks to release a fix that allowed state and local labs to use it.
Ideas
The Federal Government Needs a Military-Style Campaign Against the Coronavirus
A longtime infectious disease specialist says such campaigns are effective against these kinds of infectious diseases because the way viruses operate fits, conceptually. into a military model.
Ideas
Trump Freezes Hiring at Another DHS Agency
TSA is the second Homeland Security component agency to suspend taking on new employees.
Ideas
White-Supremacist Violence Is Terrorism
As commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, I fought America’s enemies abroad. Now we must fight violent, hateful ideologies at home.
Threats
DISA Data Breach Affected 200,000 People, Officials Confirm
Defense officials provided few details but said the affected systems have since been secured.
Science & Tech
Border Patrol Seeks Automated Sensors to Cover Watery Blindspots
Homeland Security is looking for tech that can help border agents spot illegal watercraft — and decide what to do about them.
Policy
DHS to Waive Contracting Rules to Build Border Wall Faster
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf is using a 2005 law to override certain requirements.
Policy
Trump Targets Major Weapons Projects To Fund Wall
The funds will be drawn mainly from procurement for major programs like the F-35 fighter jet. $1.3 billion will come from the National Guard alone.
Ideas
Trump's Former Chief of Staff, John Kelly, Finally Lets Loose
The retired Marine general explained, in the clearest terms yet, his misgivings about Trump’s behavior regarding North Korea, immigration, and Ukraine.
Policy