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Automobiles
April 19, 2023
Apocalypse Soon
Doug Gordon
We Can Have It All: Shorter Commutes, Less Traffic. Why Aren’t We Doing It?
Western car culture, while promising the opposite, deprives us of our most precious commodity: time.
March 18, 2022
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Matt Ford
The Big Winner in the Daylight Saving Time Debate: Cars
All this shouting about clocks is actually another pitched battle over the primacy of automobiles in our politics.
March 9, 2022
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The Politics of Everything
Too Fast or Too Furious?
More people are dying in traffic crashes. Is pandemic rage to blame?
Audio playback is available for this article
April 24, 2021
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Alex Pareene
The Right to Crash Cars Into People
How Republicans across the country came to endorse a terrorist tactic against protesters
August 2, 2018
Emily Atkin
Trump’s Plan to Scare Americans Into Supporting Car Pollution
The administration says thousands more people will die in traffic accidents if vehicles are forced to become more fuel-efficient.
March 13, 2014
Jeffrey Ball
The Proportion of Young Americans Who Drive Has Plummeted—And No One Knows Why
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