Alex Kingsbury

Alex Kingsbury

The Great Drone Freak-Out Is Coming

The public has already been given the government’s best answers to the latest panic over mysterious lights in the sky over New Jersey. Many Americans simply don’t like a mundane answer — fixed-wing piloted aircraft, smaller planes, hobbyist drones — that implies they are rubes at best and paranoid…

The Man Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers Is Scared

Daniel Ellsberg, famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers and his activism against nuclear weapons, announced recently that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Mr. Ellsberg, now 91, copied the military’s secret 7,000-page history of the Vietnam War and gave it to The New York Times and The…

No One Can Hide From This Weapon in the War in Ukraine

All wars have their iconic weapons, from the AK-47 to the I.E.D. In Ukraine, it’s the drone. A vast number and variety of drones — unmanned aerial vehicles — have been used on both sides of the war, including large military-grade machines and smaller consumer models. Drone operators are the new…