[airport insecurity]

Topic: Politics

Tommorow will be 1,365 days since September 11, 2001 ā€” the same number of days that passed between the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) and the unconditional surrender of Japan (August 6, 1945).

So what have we been up to since the more recent attack ā€” which, remember, killed 3,030, 627 more than died in the Pearl Harbor attack? Well, Slate today examines our progress on airport security, such as it is.