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Brian Resnick

Brian Resnick
Brian Resnick is a staff correspondent at National Journal. Before joining, Brian spent a year at The Atlantic as a fellow, where he produced content and wrote for TheAtlantic.com. In addition to The Atlantic, his writing has been featured in Popular Mechanics and The News Journal, Delaware's main daily newspaper. Brian graduated cum laude from the University of Delaware in 2011 with a B.A. in psychology. In college, he served as a managing editor for the student newspaper, The Review, and received the E.A Nickerson award for excellence in journalism. He comes from Long Island, New York.
Artificial Intelligence

Computers Can Tell Republicans From Democrats Based on How They Talk

How artificial intelligence can recognize left from right.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

What Do Americans Hate More: Their Internet Providers or Their Government?

Customer satisfaction with the federal government is declining, according to a new survey.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Emerging Tech

Free Speech, Meet the Quadcopter

CNN's drone journalism Is just the beginning

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

A Brief History of Militarized Lasers

The Navy recently mounted a laser cannon on a ship. It's been a long time coming.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Cybersecurity

Why the U.S. Government Is Extra Worried About the Huge Internet Explorer Bug

Old computers are much more vulnerable.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

Why We Can't Name a Planet After Joe Biden—Yet

Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet. For now, they're calling it 'Biden.'

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

Should Wikipedia Put Crimea on the Russian Map?

The world's largest source of human knowledge cedes Crimea to Russia on the map, but the debate is far from over.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

Latest NSA Leak Nears Science Fiction Levels

Documents reveal the intelligence agency is racing NASA, Google and the scientific community to build the most powerful computer in the world.

  • By Brian Resnick and Marina Koren, National Journal
Digital Government

Task Force Blasts NSA's Collection and Storage of Personal Data

A group of presidential advisers recommends more than 40 changes to the NSA's data collection program.

  • By Brian Resnick, Marina Koren and Dustin Volz, National Journal
Digital Government

Obama: 'I Was Not Informed Website Wasn't Working'

Obamacare Fix Allows Outdated Insurance Plans Through 2014

  • By Matt Berman, Marina Koren, Brian Resnick, Matt Vasilogambros and Lucia Graves, National Journal
Digital Government

What to Know About the Drug-Resistant Superbugs That Killed 23,000 Last Year

A Q&A with a CDC scientist.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
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Emerging Tech

The U.S. Has a Huge Backlog of Untested DNA Evidence

And the Supreme Court might have made it worse.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

How the Bradley Manning Verdict Avoided a Serious Chill on Whistleblowing

And what it means for the future of national security leaks.

  • By Brian Resnick and Matt Berman, National Journal
Digital Government

Don’t Be Alarmed By the Drone Blimps Hovering Over D.C.

They’re here to stop cruise missiles.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

How PayPal Almost Erased the National Debt and Ruined the Global Economy

World's 1st quadrillionaire wanted to pay off the national debt. But it was just a terrible mistake.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Emerging Tech

84 Senators Still Stand for the Tyranny of Paper

Filling campaign finance docs online would save government time and money.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

Lawmakers Introduce a Bill to Establish a National Park on the Moon

Are we there yet? No.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

Why College Students Make Better Decisions Than Intelligence Agents

Science says collegians make the more rational decisions. Really.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

Is 16 Minutes the Best We Can Do for Tornado Warnings?

For now, yes. But Congress would like to change that.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal
Digital Government

Is There Such Thing as Too Much Evidence?

Assembling the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev won't be as simple as it appears from the news.

  • By Brian Resnick, National Journal