A flurry of recent articles has documented the extinction of a once-ubiquitous feature on the streets of New York City: the pay phone. In their heyday, pay phones offered a convenient, cheap, relatively anonymous form of communication (though certainly not a secure one). Criminals used them regularly. Spies, too, employed
Hello, and welcome to the inaugural edition of The Brush Pass! Iβm Zach Dorfman, a national security and intelligence journalist, and the author of the newsletter youβre now reading. I want to kick off this inaugural edition with something that may seem a little unusual β but bear with