From cramped seats to captive shippers to stranded cities, re-regulating airlines, rail, and trucking could revive America’s heartland.
Department of Transportation
Posted inMagazine
The Electricity Is Too Damn High
High prices at corporate-owned EV charging stations could cripple the spread of climate-friendly transportation. We need to help the mom-and-pops compete.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
Hey, Pete Buttigieg, Use Your Power to Get Us Better Airline Service
Fare hikes, canceled flights, endless delays—flying is a nightmare, but the transportation secretary has powers to make things better if only he’d use them.
Posted inMain, Political Animal
Don Blankenship Can Absolutely Win
The reason the GOP opposes Blankenship has nothing to do with his electability.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Only the Best People
Maybe he’s going to say he got railroaded: A top official charged with overseeing the safety of U.S. railroads has resigned “effective immediately,” the Department of Transportation said Saturday after POLITICO raised questions about whether he had been simultaneously working as a public relations consultant for a sheriff’s department in Mississippi. Heath Hall became the […]
