Who We Are

Inkstick Media is an award-winning nonprofit newsroom investigating how power, money, and the systems built in the name of security shape people’s lives.

We follow those systems wherever they lead — from wars and weapons spending to corporate power, policing, surveillance, borders, emerging technology, and the communities living with their consequences.

In the process, we tear down the false wall between “foreign” and “domestic” policy. Because the Pentagon’s trillion-dollar budget doesn’t stop at the water’s edge — it shapes your town, your school board, your police department, from Gaza to Kansas, Kabul to Connecticut.

We publish deep-dive investigative reporting, sharp analysis, and award-winning storytelling. Our podcast, Things That Go Boom, unpacks the hidden forces shaping US security, while our newsletters take readers behind the headlines and into the fight for accountability.

And the name? “Inkstick” is military slang for a pen. It’s a reminder that stories can be weapons, too.

At Inkstick, we believe journalism should do more than describe the world. It should hold power to account and clear space for new possibilities.

Because when power operates in the name of security, someone should be asking who benefits — and who pays.

Ready to get started? Subscribe to our newsletters. Listen to Things That Go Boom. Support our reporting. Together, we can keep asking the questions others won’t.