For more than twenty years, the checkpoint has served as a kind of civic membrane — separating those bound for somewhere from those left behind. Now, the Transportation Security Administration has quietly begun to dissolve that boundary, launching a program that allows certain non-passengers to pass through airport security without a ticket. It is a modest but meaningful reversal of the post-9/11 logic that made the secure terminal a space reserved exclusively for travelers, and it asks a question the last two decades foreclosed: who, exactly, belongs on the other side of the gate?
TSA Launches Program Allowing Non-Flyers Through Security Without Tickets
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