Government? Closed. Parks? Open.

Reading the news is a small daily horror. We are currently in the longest government shutdown of the modern era, and people and places are suffering. The institutions we have built this country upon are failing us. The national parks are staying open despite being understaffed and unable to handle the influx of visitors. Restroom …

Putting Price Tags on Parks

Once upon a time, a man named Gutenberg invented the printing press. Before that books were copied by hand, making them expensive and rare, available only to the societal elite. And then along came Gutenberg and everything changed. There were more books in circulation. More people began to read. The worlds of ink and paper …