Maintaining the momentum of Zohran Mamdani’s historically successful election campaign has meant doing the little things right.
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Posted inTransportation
Trump’s Tunnel Vision Is Screwing Up a Hugely Important Infrastructure Project
A new rail bridge opens in New Jersey, but all eyes are on the Gateway Program’s tunnel funding crisis.
Posted inPolitics
Congress? Maybe Check Back in 2027.
The State of the Union address made sure that Republicans will preside over a year of inaction in our nation’s legislature.
Posted inTransportation
How Not to Build Infrastructure Projects
The Hudson Tunnel Project between New York and New Jersey is officially a political nightmare en route to the midterms.
Posted inSports
Olympic Spirits on ICE
Why would tourists come to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics when Trump is transforming the entire country into a xenophobic danger zone?
Posted inTransportation
How Trump Doomed the American Auto Industry
Ford and GM made a big bet on electrification. Then Trump plunged a knife into their backs.
Posted inTransportation
New York’s Bold Congestion Plan Triumph
Charging drivers to enter the city’s business district stoked outrage and acceptance as residents come to terms with the program.
Posted inTransportation
Air Safety Already Had Gaps. Then the Shutdown Came.
During the recent government shutdown, the national conversation about flying safety focused solely on FAA air traffic controllers and TSA screeners. Few people seemed aware that thousands of other federal watchdogs spent six weeks on their couches.
Posted inBooks
‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered
Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.
Posted inNewsletters
Trump Keeps Overreaching: Will It Backfire?
No university has agreed to his latest extortion plan. And his vindictive partisan shutdown of the NY-NJ Gateway tunnel project could be a life preserver for Democrat Mikie Sherrill in the close New Jersey governor’s race.