It might be hard to believe as you’re herded bleary-eyed through a Newark airport security line at 6 am, but the TSA has actually gotten better at screening for threats. Beginning in the late 2010s, ...

American travelers can now keep shoes on during airport security as millimeter wave technology effectively detects threats ...

It was post-9/11 security theater — the performative illusion that mass ritualized inconvenience will make us safer.

The shoe removal process was implemented in 2006 "in response to an attempt by an airline passenger to conceal a bomb in his ...