Today’s Headlines

Unlicensed drivers are linked to fatal crashes much more often now than pre-pandemic

"We shouldn’t be aiming to nudge a few percentage points in public opinion. Our goal should be to make freedom of mobility so compelling that people demand it."

Andy Boenau

January 13, 2026

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers have been brutalizing and killing people who they perceive as threats. Is mass automobility multiplying their pretext to do it?

Kea Wilson

January 12, 2026

Human beings generally don't like being forced to do anything, so Grist wonders whether policies like car bans could actually be counterproductive?

Blake Aued

January 12, 2026

"We're not going to fix decades of inequitable investment in one year, and things like the high-frequency bus network and the Red Line Extension are really important, but the work isn't done."

Widening a highway to cure congestion is like losing weight by buying bigger pants — but thanks to the same principle of "induced demand," adding bike paths and train lines to cure climate actually works.

Kea Wilson

January 9, 2026