From The Archives: 'Sticks and Bricks'
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
Welcome to the Brush Pass
Hello, and welcome to the inaugural edition of The Brush Pass! I’m Zach Dorfman, a national security and intelligence journalist, and the author of the newsletter you’re now reading. I want to kick off this inaugural edition with something that may seem a little unusual – but bear with