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  • Why do local governments keep handing out tax breaks to defense contractors… even when the promised jobs don’t materialize? In the first episode of our new season, reporter Taylor Barnes takes us deep into the Utah desert, where Northrop Grumman is building the next generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles with the help of massive state[...]
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  • Across the country — from DC to Los Angeles to Chicago — the military is more visible in daily life than it’s been in years. But behind the boots on the ground lies a much bigger system. One that puts grenade launchers in the hands of police, surveils our every step, and ships weapons overseas.[...]
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Inkstick Media is an award-winning nonprofit newsroom that covers war where it lands: in people’s lives.

We dig into the places where power hides — defense budgets dressed up as jobs programs, corporate subsidies disguised as security, and wars sold as inevitable. We expose the deals, the spin, and the silence that let militarism thrive.

Our work tears 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.

The defense industry talks in payloads and firepower. We ask: what does militarism mean for people? Our reporting centers human lives over weapons specs — because the story of war is always a human story.

We publish deep-dive investigative reporting, sharp analysis, and award-winning storytelling. Our flagship 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 if war is endless, so is the need to ask why.

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