Diethylstilbestrol was one of the first identified endocrine disruptors. However, efforts to warn french physicians about the drug’s potentially dangerous effects on pregnant women failed. Emmanuelle Fillion and Didier Torny show how sentinels sometimes don’t work.

Security is no longer a privilege of the few, or a commodity in the hands of those few who can afford it. Claudio (“nex”) Guarnieri explains why civil society isn’t going to secure itself, and why it needs help from hackers.

Rebecca Lemov explores the systematizing and regularizing of an American brand of torture.

What happens when a crowd decides to think for it- self? Daniel Kreiss explores the answer in the 2008 Obama campaign.

Five year planning is dead. Long live the five year plan! Andrew Barry explores infrastructure’s transparencies and opacities in the UK