To commemorate Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday on July 12, the New York Times last week featured an essay by historian Douglas Brinkley based on…

Yesterday’s shutdown of the Washington Metro rail system was supposed to result in horrible congestion. In fact, as reported in the Washington…

Lost in all the hoopla over “y’all queda” and “VanillaISIS” is any basic history of how public rangelands in the…

Yesterday, the Senate passed a six-year transportation bill that increases spending on highways and transit but only provides three years of funding…

Easy credit fanned the flames of the recent housing bubble, but the bubble was first inflated by anti-sprawl plans that…

Through the Envision San Jose 2040 community workshop, the city of San Jose is asking residents to present plans for…

In the wake of the Minneapolis bridge disaster, transportation journalists are searching for local bridges in danger of collapse. This…

The Angora Fire, which burned nearly 200 homes in South Lake Tahoe, can teach important lessons about wildland fire. If…