Thomas R. Mockaitis

Long lines snake through the United Airlines terminal at O'Hare International Airport on May 16, 2016.

Airport screening should focus on people, not baggage

May 11, 2019 at 8:20 a.m.

The Transportation Security Administration has advised some passengers to arrive at airports three hours before their scheduled departures so that they can get through long screening lines without missing their...

Police in riot gear sweep the area of demonstrators next to one of the memorials to the victims of the recent Brussels attacks at the Place de la Bourse in Brussels on March, 27, 2016.

Placebo security: Why armed guards don’t make airports safer

May 11, 2019 at 8:09 a.m.

Q. What's a good way to waste millions of dollars of taxpayer money without trying very hard? A. Wait for a devastating terrorist attack to frighten people, and then deploy...

Items are left in memory of the dead in Paris outside the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 17, 2015.

Terrorist attacks are sign of weakness, not strength

August 21, 2019 at 11:00 p.m.

Just days after the Paris attacks, American pundits are lining up to criticize President Barack Obama's policy for combating the Islamic State. Containment, they insist, has failed. Just look at...

The problem with avoiding the ‘terrorism’ label

August 21, 2019 at 10:43 p.m.

My phone didn't ring even once on Thursday. This may seem a strange thing to report, but as a terrorism analyst I am used to being called when a violent,...

What we can learn from the Brits

August 22, 2021 at 10:50 p.m.

The four explosions that rocked London late last week deepened the sense of helplessness that terrorism invokes. If our closest ally, a nation with more practical counterterrorism experience than any...

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